Karl Stargardt

Who is Karl Stargardt?

Karl Bruno Stargardt was a German ophthalmologist born in Berlin.

In 1899 he received his doctorate from the University of Kiel, where he later became chief physician at the university eye clinic. Afterwards he worked in the eye clinic at Strassburg, then becoming head of ophthalmology at Bonn. In 1923 he succeeded Alfred Bielschowsky as chair of ophthalmology at the University of Marburg. Soon afterwards he developed nephritis and cardiac complications, and died on April 2, 1927.

His name is associated with Stargardt disease, an hereditary eye disease that is one of the most common causes of childhood macular degeneration.