Burchard Mauchart

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name = Burchard David Mauchart

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birth_date = 1696
birth_place = Germany
death_date = 1751
death_place = Germany
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field = Anatomist and surgeon
work_institution = University of Tübingen
alma_mater = University of Tübingen
doctoral_advisor = Elias Rudolph Camerarius Jr.
doctoral_students = Philipp Friedrich Gmelin
known_for = Ophthalmology
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Burchard David Mauchart (1696-1751) was professor of anatomy and surgery at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and a pioneer in the field of ophthalmology. In 1748 he became one of the first to document the eye disorder now known as keratoconus. His surviving works are now to be found in the form of theses by his students.

He obtained his Lic. Med. degree in 1722 at the University of Tübingen. Mauchart also studied for two years in Paris from 1718-1720 under the oculist Woolhouse.

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* F. Börner, "Nachrichten von dem Vornehmsten Lebensumständen und Schriften Jetzlebender Berühmter Aerzte und Naturforscher," J. C. Meissner, 1749, vol. 1, pp. 345-363.