Ein Leben Fur Die Optometrie (A Life for Optometry)
 Catalogue Number: 4436 Ein Leben Fur Die Optometrie (A Life for Optometry) Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Author: GEYER Hans-U Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 1988 Time Period: 1940 to 1999 Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Gerlingen, Germany Publisher/Manufacturer: K. Dieringer Description Of Item: Original burgundy fabric hardcover 200 mm x 245 mm x 25 mm imprinted EIN LEBEN FUR OPTOMETRIE/Peter Abel und seine Zeit-Mehr als seine Biographie (A LIFE FOR OPTOMETRY/Peter Abel and his time-More than a biography) with multicoloured dust wrapper, 302 pages including five appendices, black and white photographs throughout. Text is in German. A translation of the dust wrapper notes is enclosed. Historical Significance: Peter Abel was a pioneer German optometrist, his son Hans Peter practised in Germany and Australia and was a Fellow of the ACO.Peter was instrumental in the manufacture of scleral contact lenses in Germany after the war and had one of the first manufacturing plants for scleral lenses in Germany. He was a co-founder of the German Contact Lens Association (VDC), co-founder of the German Society for Optometry (DGO), co-founder of the Scientific Association of Optometrists (in Germany), he was the first vice-president of the International Optical & Optometric League (founded in London 1947). He was a long time lecturer at the German School for Optometry in Berlin. The Association of German Contact Lens Specialist and Optometrists (VDCO) is the successor of the VDC and offer an annual 'Peter Abel Prize' for PhD candidates researching in the fields of Optometry, contact lens optics and physiology of the eye. How Acquired: Donated by Optometry Australia Date Acquired: 7/11/2023 Condition: Very Good Location: Archive room. East wall. Books of historical note |