DONDERS, FRANZ CORNELIUS Dutch ophthalmologist, was born on 1VIay 27, 1818, in Tilburg, and studied at Utrecht where, after being an army surgeon, he be came professor of physiology in 1847. From 1852 onwards he specialized in ophthalmology to which belong his studies of the muscae volitantes (1847), the relation between convergence of visual axes and accommodation (1848), regeneration of the cornea (1848), hypermetropia (1858), ametropia (186o), astigmatism (1862) . His The Anomalies of Refraction and Accommodation was published in England in 1864. Donders died in Utrecht on March 24, 1889.
See: E. Clarke, A Brief Review of the Work of Donders (1914)•