Arnold Pillat

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Arnold Pillat (born December 10, 1891 in Ruschowan in the Leitmeritz district , † September 25, 1975 in Vienna ) was an Austrian ophthalmologist .

Life

Arnold Pillat, a native of Ruschowan in Bohemia, took after graduation , a study of medicine at the Charles University in Prague in which he interrupted by his participation in the First World War , in July 1918 with the promotion of Dr. med. completed. After a short internship at the Surgical Clinic of the University of Prague, Pillat moved to the II. University Eye Clinic in Vienna in 1919 . Pillat - he was a student of Friedrich Dimmer there, and after his death in 1926 by Karl Lindner - completed his habilitation in ophthalmology in 1927.

In 1929 Pillat followed a call to Beijing to the position of director of the Rockefeller Institute's Eye Clinic. In early 1933, at Julius Tandler's instigation, Pillat took over the management of the eye department at the City of Vienna Hospital in Lainz , which he held until 1936. Arnold Pillat was then appointed to the Board of Directors of the University Eye Clinic in Graz, before he was entrusted with the management of the I. University Eye Clinic in Vienna in 1944, succeeding Josef Meller . Arnold Pillat - at the time of National Socialism he was a member of the Nazi Lecturer Association - held this position until 1946 and from 1947 until his retirement in 1963.

Arnold Pillat, who presided over the Austrian Ophthalmological Society in 1959 and 1965 and the Austrian Cancer Aid Society from 1966 to 1972 as successor to Thassilo Antoine , was accepted as a member of the Leopoldina and was awarded the City of Vienna's Ring of Honor in 1962 . The focus of his research was on vitamin diseases of the eye and chemotherapy for carcinomas. He was buried at the Grinzing cemetery .

Fonts

  • With Friedrich Dimmer: Atlas of photographic images of the human fundus, F. Deuticke, Vienna 1927.
  • Studies on the effectiveness of filtration scarring glaucoma operations with special consideration of the iridenkleisis antiglaucoma Holth, S. Karger, Berlin 1928.
  • With Josef Böck, Karl Kofler, Ludwig Sallmann: Ophthalmological interventions: a concise surgical theory, editor Josef Meller , edition 4, Springer-Verlag, Vienna 1938.
  • Brief war ophthalmology, 2nd expanded edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Vienna 1944.
  • First aid on the eye, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna 1948.

literature

  • In memoriam ARNOLD PILLAT (December 10, 1891 - September 26, 1975) In: R. Gittler: Spektrum der Augenheilkunde, Volume 5, Number 6, 285–292, doi : 10.1007 / BF03163974
  • Opening speech on the occasion of the anniversary conference of the Austrian Ophthalmological Society 2005 in Bad Ischl. In: Roderich Fellner: Spectrum of Ophthalmology, Volume 19, Number 3, 150–154, doi : 10.1007 / BF03163384
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences: Almanach, Volume 128, Page 305, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1979
  • Clinical Monthly Bulletins for Ophthalmology, Volume 168, 1976

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 100 Years of Austrian Cancer Aid 1910 - 2010. Accessed on February 5, 2019 .
  2. ^ Member entry of Arnold Pillat at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2012.
  3. ^ Arnold Pillat grave site , Vienna, Grinzinger Friedhof, Group 32, Row 1, No. 12.

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personal data
SURNAME Pillat, Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruschowan , Leitmeritz district
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1975
Place of death Vienna