Karl Bruno Stargardt was born on the 4th December 1875 in Berlin.
He became a German ophthalmologist whom discovered Stargardt Disease.
He studied medicine at the University of Kiel, qualifying with a doctorate in 1899. He later became chief physician of the Bonn University’s ophthalmology clinic, followed in 1923 by a post as chair of ophthalmology at the University of Marburg.
In 1909 he described 7 patients with a recessively inherited macular dystrophy, now known as Stargardt’s disease, being described as a progressive and severe reduction of central vision.
He developed Nephritis (Inflammation of the kidneys) and cardiac complications and died on April 2nd 1927 aged 51.
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