Jakob Stilling

Jakob Stilling (22 September 1842 – 30 April 1915) was a German ophthalmologist from Kassel.

He studied medicine at several locations including Paris and Würzburg, and obtained his doctorate in 1865.

In 1867 he became an eye doctor in Kassel, later furthering his education in ophthalmic medicine at Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Turin.

This disorder goes by several other names, including "Duane syndrome", being named after American ophthalmologist Alexander Duane (1858-1926), who studied several clinical cases of the disorder, and in 1905 provided a more comprehensive description of its symptoms.

Among his written works was a study on glaucoma called Zur Theorie des Glaukoms, a treatise that was published in Albrecht von Graefe's Archiv für Ophthalmologie.