August of Ammon
Friedrich August von Ammon (born September 10, 1799 in Göttingen , † May 18, 1861 in Dresden ) was a German ophthalmologist .
family
He came from a Lower Austrian noble family who had been raised to knightly imperial nobility in 1594 and whose reliable line of lineage begins with the sculptor Wolfgang Ammon († 1655) in Loosdorf (Lower Austria). He was the son of the Electorate Court preacher Christoph Ammon , Vice President of the Evangelical State Consistory in Dresden , and his first wife Elisabetha Breyer (1771-1822). Christoph Ammon had received the Saxon nobility renewal on November 28, 1824 in Dresden.
Life
Ammon studied at the Universities of Leipzig and Göttingen . In 1820 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Göttingen . In 1823 he settled in Dresden as a doctor. In 1829 he became a professor at the Surgical Medical Academy and director of the polyclinic. The Saxon King Friedrich August II appointed him royal personal physician in 1837 and awarded him the Commander's Cross 2nd class of his Order of Civil Merit . In 1841 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Nassau House Order of the Golden Lion .
Ammon founded a private sanatorium for those with eye and surgical diseases. In 1858 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . Ammon died in Dresden in 1861 and was buried in the Elias cemetery there.
He married Natalie Redlich on December 1, 1824 in Dresden, and after her death on January 29, 1853, Natalie Ernestine von Bodelschwingh widowed von Baranow . He had a daughter from his first marriage, Anna (1825–1899), who married the later Saxon Lieutenant General Clemens von Hausen (1809–1879) and became the mother of Minister Max von Hausen .
Works
- De genesi et usu maculae luteae in retina oculi humani obviae. Weimar 1830.
- The knowledge and treatment of Asiatic cholera: taking into account the information obtained through the opening of the corpse about the nature of this disease and provided with a list of the remedies and healing formulas tried and proposed in the treatment of the same / according to the best sources for civil and military doctors and surgeons and for Pharmaceutical experts edited by Friedrich August Ammon. Walther, 3rd editions, Dresden 1831 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Pharmacopoea anticholerica extemporanea: exhibens Compositiones Medicamentorum a Medicis experientissimis ad Curam Cholerae Asiaticae tam internam quam externam accomodatorum. Voss, Lipsiae 1832 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- De physiologia tenotomiae. Dresden 1837.
- Clinical presentation of the diseases and educational defects of the human eye etc. Berlin 1838–47, 4 volumes.
- The treatment of squint through the muscle incision. Berlin 1840.
- De Iritide. German, Berlin 1843.
- Illustrated pathological anatomy of the human cornea, sclera, choroid, and optic. ed. von Warnatz, Leipzig 1862.
- Congenital Surgical Diseases of Man. Berlin, 1839–1842.
- Plastic surgery. with Moritz Baumgarten, Berlin 1842.
- Well dietetics. 7th edition, Leipzig 1880.
- The first mother duties and the first child care. 26th edition, by Winckell, Leipzig 1884.
He also published a journal for ophthalmology (Dresden and Heidelberg 1830–36, 5 vols.) And a monthly for medicine, ophthalmology and surgery (Leipzig, 1838–40, 3 vols.).
literature
- August Rothmund: Ammon, Friedrich August von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 406.
- Magnus Schmid: Ammon, Friedrich August von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 254 ( digitized version ).
- Eduard Zeis' speech on the memory of Dr. Friedrich August von Ammon. Dresden: Ernst at the end of 1861 (with Ammon's bibliography) ( digitized version )
Web links
- Literature by and about August von Ammon in the catalog of the German National Library
- August von Ammon in the Internet Archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corps Lists 1910, 69 , 139
- ↑ Yearbooks of all medicine at home and abroad. ( Schmidt's Jahrbücher ) 31 (1841), p. 272.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ammon, August of |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ammon, Friedrich August von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ophthalmologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1861 |
| Place of death | Dresden |