German ophthalmologist, born on August 3, 1867, in Konigsberg;He died in 1939.Von hippel received his m.d. in gottingen in 1889.Hipper became a doctor in 1890 and was appointed assistant professor of pathology at the university of Heidelberg in 1893.Here he studied severely infected cadavers, which influenced his subsequent research.In 1892 he began to specialize in ophthalmology and became Dr. Leber's assistant.He studied and lectured on ophthalmology and won an award for his research.In 1897, he was appointed Heidelberg distinguished professor.In 1909, von hippel moved to Halley as professor and director of the ophthalmology clinic, and in 1914 to gottingen as professor of ophthalmology.In 1934, due to poor health, he retired.Von hippel is internationally recognized for his work on the pathological anatomy of the eye.Von Hippel-Lindau: a malignant tumor characterized by retinal hemangioma, small cerebrovascular blastoma, and renal tumor.The condition is autosomal dominant and is now located on chromosome 3.