Anton Elschnig

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Anton Philipp Elschnig (born August 22, 1863 in Leibnitz (Styria) , † November 13, 1939 in Vienna ) was an Austrian ophthalmologist and eye surgeon.

Life

His father Anton was director of a kk teacher training institute. Elschnig studied medicine in Graz and received his doctorate there in 1886. In 1892 he completed his habilitation in ophthalmology (the habilitation thesis was on embolism in the central retinal artery ). From 1895 he was with Isidor Schnabel in Vienna, where he became titular professor in 1900. In 1907 he became a full professor of ophthalmology at the German University in Prague . In 1917/18 he was rector of the university. In 1933 he retired. He died in a traffic accident in Vienna.

Elschnig was known for innovations in eye surgery, for example in corneal transplants ( keratoplasty ) and operations for ptosis , for glaucoma ( glaucoma ) and cataract operations . In his teaching, he introduced film recordings to demonstrate eye operations.

He also published on the anatomy of the optic nerve entry (normal and pathological), parenchymal keratitis and the development of sympathetic ophthalmia (which he attributed to an immune system reaction, anaphylaxis ).

The Elschnig syndrome and Elschnig-Perlen (visual illusions due to regenerative changes after cataract operations) are named after him .

Fonts

  • The functional test of the eye, Leipzig, Vienna: F. Deuticke 1896, Archive.org , 3rd edition 1923
  • Normal anatomy of the optic nerve entry: compilation of ophthalmoscopic and anatomical findings, Breslau: Kern 1899 (photomicrograph by Oskar Zoth)
  • Pathological anatomy of the optic nerve entry, Berlin 1900
  • Stereoscopic-photographic atlas of the pathological anatomy of the eye, Vienna, Leipzig 1901, 1902
  • Eye care, Berlin: Hirschwald 1915
  • Pathological anatomy of glaucoma, in: O. Lubarsch-F. Henke, Handbook of Pathological Anatomy and Histology, 1928
  • The intracapsular starling extraction, Springer 1932

He was the editor of the section on ophthalmological surgery in the handbook of complete ophthalmology by Albrecht von Graefe and Edwin Theodor Saemisch (2nd and 3rd edition). Volume I Archive.org , Volume II Archive.org

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elschnig, Keratoplasty, Archives of Ophthalmology, Volume 4, 1930, pp. 165-173. Further development of a method by August von Hippel .
  2. ↑ Elschnig, Studies on Sympathetic Ophthalmia. 1. Effect of antigens from inside the eye, Albrecht von Graefes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, Volume 75, 1910, pp. 459-473
personal data
SURNAME Elschnig, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elschnig, Anton Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ophthalmologist and eye surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Leibnitz (Styria)
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1939
Place of death Vienna