Alfons Bollard

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Alphons Poller, photography by Rudolf Koppitz

Alfons Poller , also Alphons Poller and actually Alfons Pollak (born August 31, 1879 in Klein Schwadowitz in the Trautenau district , † September 3, 1930 in Vienna ), was an Austrian physician .

Life

Born as the son of an Austrian military bandmaster, he attended the infantry cadet school in Trieste from 1893 to 1897 . In order to pursue his artistic and scientific inclinations, he took his leave as a lieutenant in 1898 for health reasons.

First he studied philology and philosophy , painted and trained as a sculptor . While still a student, he worked as an assistant with Guido Holzknecht at the X-ray Institute in Vienna to develop the first usable radiometer . From 1908 he studied medicine in Vienna and received his doctorate in 1914 as Dr. of medicine. In 1914 he married Eugenia Brown in Vienna (August 14, 1879 to August 21, 1962).

As a student and later after completing his doctorate, he was already involved in the manufacture of moulages and was appointed to Berlin in 1915 by the Prussian War Ministry as head of the moulage laboratory of the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for military medical education . In 1918 his wish was to be fulfilled , an institute for performing medicine was created at the University of Vienna and he was given a teaching position as its director, from 1919 to 1923 he was its director and moulage preparator. As a result of the precarious post-war conditions, this project fell victim to the oppressive dismantling regulations in Austria, which was very disappointing for Poller.

In Aachen and Königsberg he founded studios that worked according to his method. In 1924 he set up his own laboratory in the police prison in Vienna to use his invention for criminal purposes. From 1926 he was a consultant in the molding department of the identification office of the Vienna Police Directorate. In 1928 he became a scientific representative and was entrusted with the administration of Apolda AG in Zurich. The molding method he invented was included in their detection service by police authorities around the world. Plagued by a treacherous illness which in the last months of his life bound him to bed in terrible agony, he decided to commit suicide in 1930. His grave is in the Neustift cemetery in Vienna. He was no longer allowed to experience the publication of his book; the prepared book The Pollersche method for molding the living and dead as well as objects appeared posthumously in 1931, edited by E. Fetscher and his wife EB Poller.

literature

  • About the methods of producing physical images, especially the "Pollersche". In: Central sheet for general pathology and pathological anatomy of the German Pathological Society. German Society for Neuropathology, German Society for Pathology, 1937.
  • Alphons Poller, EB Poller, E. Fetscher: The poller process for molding the living and the dead, as well as objects. Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1931.
  • The essence of sculpture, a reflection on the hand of some works by the sculptor Franz Barwig . 1st year. "Faithful Eckart"
  • Photograph and work of art. after photographs by Prof. Rudolf Koppitz . 2nd year, "Loyal Eckart"
  • What is Kant to us? 1st year loyal Eckart
  • Josef Engelhart, a Viennese master. 1st year. "Faithful Eckart"
  • Thoughts before the linocuts by Ms. Norbertine Bresslern-Roth . 3rd year. "Faithful Eckardt"

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  • Obituary, published in "Getreuen Eckardt", August 1930.
  • Central sheet for general pathology and pathological anatomy from the German Pathological Society. German Society for Neuropathology, German Society for Pathology, 1937: About the methods of producing physical images, in particular the "Pollersche", p. 10 ...
  • Lothar Borchers, Karl Eichner, Heinrich Kappert: Dental materials and their processing . Philadelphia / London / Toronto 1973.
  • A. Poller: Poller's method for molding the living and dead as well as objects . 2005, p. 301.
  • The big Brockhaus: Handbook of Knowledge. FA Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1928, p. 717.
  • Isidore Fischer: Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. 1962, p. 1738.
  • Reports on Scientific Biology . German Botanical Society, 1934 ... Photo? according to models made by Pollersche, p. 692.
  • Jack C. Rich: The Materials and Methods of Sculpture . 1988, p. 96 ... Alphons, The Pollersche method for molding the living and dead as well as objects. Berlin, 1931.
  • Thomas Schnalke, Kathy Spatschek: Diseases in Wax: The History of the Medical Moulage. 1995, p. 216.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Medical University of Vienna: Physicus ; Retrieved Oct. 14, 2015.
  2. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German biographical encyclopedia. Publishing house KG SAUR
personal data
SURNAME Bollard, Alfons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bollards, alphons; Pollak, Alfons (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian medic
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein Schwadowitz , Trautenau district
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1930
Place of death Vienna