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Heinrich Wöhlk (1913-1991)

The Heinrich Wöhlk Story
In 1936, while still in his early 20's Heinrich Wöhlk, who had a +8.00 Diopter spectacle correction tired of wearing heavy, thick eyeglasses and was provided with Carl Zeiss scleral lenses made of silicate glass from Professor Leopold Heine from the Kiel Eye Clinic.  gives him scleral lenses made of silicate glass from Carl Zeiss. However, the wearing comfort left much to be desired.

In 1940 he fabricated a scleral lens for himself which he claimed was significantly more comfortable than his previous lenses, then about six years later shortly after WWII further developed a scleral with an interchangeable lens.


He founded his company Gewerbe zur Herstellung unsichtbarer Haftgläser which translates to "industry for producing invisible adhesive glasses."





adapted from https://www.woehlk.com/history.html

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