Carl Friedrich Richard Förster [SEP] place of birth
Carl Friedrich Richard Förster
Carl Friedrich Richard Förster (15 November 1825 – 7 July 1902) was a German ophthalmologist born in the town of Lissa (today Leszno, Poland).
He received his medical doctorate in 1849, and for most of his career was associated with the University of Breslau. Two of his assistants at Breslau were Hermann Wilbrand (1851–1935) and Hermann Rudolph Aubert (1826–1892).
Förster is remembered for conducting tests of visual acuity, and for his investigations of indirect vision (peripheral vision)
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