The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Nagel, Albrecht Eduard

NAGEL, nä'gĕl, Albrecht Eduard, German ophthalmologist: b. Danzig, 14 June 1833; d. Tübingen, 24 July 1895. He studied medicine at Königsberg and Berlin and established a practice in Danzig in 1856. In 1864 he was privat-docent at Tübingen and 1874 he became professor of ophthalmology there. He developed the theory of the identity of the retinas. He edited the &lsquo;Mittheilungen aus der ophthalmiatrischen Klinik in Tübingen&rsquo; after 1880, and published &lsquo;Das Sehen mit zwei Augen&rsquo; (1861); &lsquo;Die Anomalien der Refraction und Accommodation des Auges&rsquo; (1880); &lsquo;Die Vordbildung zum medicinischen Studium&rsquo; (1890).