Paul Silex

Paul Silex (20 March 1858, Gorgast – 20 January 1929, Berlin) was a German ophthalmologist.

He is known for contributions made involving war-related blindness.

He studied medicine at the Universities of Halle, Berlin and Breslau, obtaining his doctorate in 1883.

Afterwards he served as an assistant to ophthalmologist Ludwig Laqueur (1839-1909) in Strasbourg, followed by several years (1884-1897) as an assistant to Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger (1830-1905) in Berlin.

[1] In Berlin he opened a private clinic at St. Maria Victoria-Krankenhaus.