Dr. Julius Samelsohn Lecture
The lecture honors particularly deserving employees of the Eye Clinic University Hospital Cologne. The lecture is held either by the honoree or an external speaker. The lecture commemorates Dr. Julius Samelsohn, student of Albrecht von Graefe, “founder” of academic ophthalmology in Cologne and founder of the “Cologne Eye Clinic for the Poor” in 1874 (forerunner of the Cologne Eye Clinic) and winner of the “von Graefe Prize” of the DOG in 1885.
Prize winner 2026: Prof. Dr. Antje Neugebauer: Services to strabology and neuroophthalmology at the Cologne University Eye Clinic and orthoptics in Cologne (guest speaker and laudator: Prof. Dr. Anja Eckstein, Essen University Eye Clinic)
Prof. Dr. Claus Cursiefen and Prof. Dr. Antje Neugebauer, University Hospital Cologne, and Prof. Dr. Anja Eckstein, University Eye Clinic Essen, Photo: Dorothea Hensen
