Evaluation of the developmental contributions of the nationalsocialists hunted first Director of the University Eye Clinics in Münster and Publication of his incompleted life work monography of the papilla nervi optici.

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Solon Thanos
• Subject Area: Ophthalmology ; History of Science
• Term: from 2015 to 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 263938140

Prof. Aurel von Szily was the first Director of the University Eye Clinics in Münster from 1925 to 1935. He lsot his chair during the national-socialism and emigrated to Hungary in 1939. He worked out a huge monography on developmental anomalies of the optic nerve head that was never published. The applicant is in possession of this work and aims to reconstruct the monography from the remaining material and publish it.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants