Ludwig Franz Alexander Winther

Ludwig Franz Alexander Winther (1812 to 1871) was a German pathologist and ophthalmologist, a native of Offenbach am Main. He was associate professor of general pathology and therapy at the University of Giessen from 1848 to 1867 and then, from 1867 until his death, the first full professor of pathological anatomy and therapy there; his chair passed afterwards to Theodor Langhans. In 1847 he was a founding member of the Giessener Sonderbund, a teachers' association at the university. His publications included studies of the structure of the cornea and of pterygium, in 1856 and 1866, a textbook of ophthalmology in 1856 and a textbook of general pathological anatomy of the tissues of the human body in 1860.