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EARLY LIFE AND STUDIES

Hermann M. Burian was born on January 14, 1906, in Naples, Italy and received his medical education in Belgrade Yugoslavia, graduationg in 1930. After internship, he began his eye studies in Bern Switzerland with professor goldmann before joining professor Tschemark and Shubert in Prague studying physiology optics. Coming to the united states, in 1936 he joined the dartmouth eye institute progressing from research fellow to chief ophthalmologist. In 1951 he joined the eye department of the university of iowa where he established the division of ocular mobility and binocular vision, also the title of a seminal book completed with his student Gunter K. Von Noorde. Leaving iowa in 1971, Dr. Burian completed his career at the university of both carolina, Chapel Hill.

His father, Richard Burian was at that time, Director of Physiology of the Station Zoologica. He began his studies in Italy, but when the country entered the first World War in 1915, hi daily moved to Leipzig, Germany. He received his secondary education in Leipzig and in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where his father became a Professor of Physiology in the Medical School. He studied medicine in Belgrade and obtained his M.D. degree in June of 1930. During 1930 and the spring of 1931, he fulfilled his military obligations and took his internship while working in the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University in Leipzig, under Professor W. Weigert.

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He worked on rhodopsin and photo chemistry. In September of 1931, he entered The University Eye Clinic at Bern, Switzerland, under Professor Seigrist and Professor Goldmann.

In 1934, he returned to Belgrade, and became an assistant in the Second Eye Clinic, but in January of 1936, he left to join the research staff at the Physiological Institute of the German University of Prague, Czechoslovakia, under Professor Tschmerk, where he began his studies in Physiological Optics. During this time he published excellent papers.

In 1936, Dr Burian was asked to join the Dartmouth Eye Institute in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dr. Burian and Dr. Alson E. Braley, first met this same year when they both presented papers at the association for research in ophtamology. It was during the time when the so called trustees of the association sat in the from row. Hermann presented a very interesting paper on the migration of pigment in the ergo retina, which was influenced by the central nervous system. He reminded at Dartmouth eye institute here he worked with professor bielschowsky nd professor Ames and rose from a research fellow to the chief ophthalmologist at the Dartmouth institute.

In 1945, he left Dartmouth, and entered private practice in Boston, Massachusetts. He was active in teaching at tufts medical school, and at the Boston city hospital. In 1951, he was invited to join the department of ophthalmology at the university of Iowa. He became a naturalised American citizen in September of 1941.

During his years at the university of Iowa, dr. Burian, enveloped a division of ocular motility and binocular vision, and developed a new laboratory for electrophysiologists of the world he helped food the international society of clinical electroretinology, and served as its secretary for eleven years.

Hermann was an outstanding linguist. His native tongue was Italian, but his friends reported that his French was also perfect as we his serbo-croatian which he learned as a boy. He spoke gran fluently, and many of his papers were published in german. He knew both latin and greek very well and had the derivation of words of all language at his command. He had a good reading knowledge of both Spanish and Russian and once, when he was in Mexico, his Spanish appeared to be excellent. He had no trouble making people understand, nor did he have trouble understanding others.

Hermann was an active member in many of the scientific societies, he was a emebrer of nearly every ophtamological society in the united states, as well as many in other parts of the world. He was active in the establishment of the squint club, the international society for clinical electroritinography, and the International strabismological association. He was active on the editorial boards of several journals, and serves as the editor of the american orthotic journal for several year.s he received many donors and delivered many lectureships. He acted visiting professor at a number of institutions around the world.

In 1971, he left the university of iowa when the academic rank of professor emeritus of the department of ophthalmology in the collage of medicine. He joined the staff at th university of north carolina, chapel hill, where he was professor of ophtamology. He was also clinical professor of ophthalmology at duke university. During his time at chapel hill, heron attended many of the important meetings around the world and gave many lectures. It was while on one of these tours in Italy that he was stricken with his final illness. It is unfortunate that he was unable to see the last version of his book on strabismus. However, he did see the mock-up of it while attending his last academy meeting. He had always wanted this textbook to be perfect and it is a great tribute to dr. Burian that one of his former studetns,, dr. Gunter von noorded helped him finish the book. Dr. Burian’s interests were not limited to sbabismus. He published a number of papers on ocular pathology, congenital anomalies and instrumentation. He is the author go over 200 important publications.