Anton von Rosas
Anton Edler von Rosas , also Anton (io) Rosas (born December 23, 1791 in Fünfkirchen , Kingdom of Hungary , † May 31, 1855 in Vienna ) was an Austrian physician who dealt specifically with ophthalmology .
Life
Anton Rosas first studied from 1806 to 1811 at the University of Pest and then at the University of Vienna , where he was awarded a doctorate in medicine and master's degree in ophthalmology in 1814 and a doctorate in surgery in 1816. After that, Rosas was assistant to Georg Joseph Beer at the first university eye clinic in the world founded by him in the general hospital . In 1819 Rosas went temporarily to the University of Padua , where he reformed the eye clinic there, before he succeeded the late Beer in Vienna in 1821. He headed the Vienna University Ophthalmology until 1853. Ignaz Gulz was his assistant from 1840 to 1842 . In 1837 Rosas was raised to the nobility. From 1849 to 1850 Rosas was also vice director of the "medical studies" in Vienna. After his death he was buried in the Sankt Marxer Friedhof . The Rosasgasse in Vienna- Meidling was named in 1894 after him.
meaning
Rosa’s achievements include improvements such as the establishment of a year-round outpatient clinic at his clinic, the production of wax models of various eye diseases and the expansion of the specialist library at the clinic. He was considered an excellent teacher and surgeon and also emerged as a writer.
During his time at the University of Vienna, however, Rosas opposed the easing of access for Jewish students and doctors, for example in the Medical Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Austrian State of 1842: “The increasing number of Israelite doctors is enough for medicine as an art and science, even that Humanity to the detriment. ”This anti-Semitic attitude was completely unfounded, since at that time there were only eight Jewish doctors out of 388 doctors in Vienna.
Fonts
- Handbook of theoretical and practical ophthalmology , 3 volumes (1830)
- Brief history of the Vienna University in general and the medical faculty of the same in particular (1843-47)
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Rosas, Anton Edler von . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 26th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1874, pp. 343–345 ( digitized version ).
- August von Rothmund: Rosas, Anton von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 159.
- J. Lauber: Rosas Anton von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7001-1483-4 , p. 241 f. (Direct links on p. 241 , p. 242 ).
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna, Vol. 4 . New edition Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-218-00748-8 .
Web links
swell
- ↑ Frank Krogmann: Gulz, Ignaz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon from 1815 - online. November 27, 2017, accessed March 4, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Vienna's street names since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 310, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosas, Anton von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ophthalmologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1791 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pécs |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1855 |
| Place of death | Vienna |