August von Rothmund

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August von Rothmund

August Rothmund , later von Rothmund (born August 1, 1830 in Volkach , † October 27, 1906 in Munich ), was a German ophthalmologist .

Life

August von Rothmund was the son of the surgeon Franz Christoph von Rothmund (1801-1891). In 1847 he completed his school education at the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich . He studied at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and was active in the Corps Isaria in 1848 . In 1853 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . He switched to Albrecht von Graefe at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin . He then worked with Carl Ferdinand von Arlt at the German University in Prague and with Friedrich Jäger von Jaxtthal in Vienna. Returned to Munich in 1854, von Rothmund taught ophthalmology at the Ludwig Maximilians University. He was the head of the surgical polyclinic at the Reisingerianum .

Rothmund became an associate professor in 1859 and a full professor of ophthalmology in 1863 . For the academic year 1884/85 he was elected rector of the LMU. He was elected member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in 1887. August von Rothmund retired in 1900 . His retirement home, the Villa Rothmund in Miesbach , was built in 1902 by Eugen Drollinger . The Rothmund-Thomson syndrome was first described in 1868 by August von Rothmund in the publication Ueber cataracten in connection with a peculiar skin degeneration .

Works

  • About radical surgery of movable hernias . Kaiser, Munich 1853.
  • Contributions to artificial pupil formation . Munich 1855.
  • About cataracts in connection with a peculiar skin degeneration . Archiv für Ophthalmologie 14 (1868), pp. 159-182.
  • Concerning the present standpoint of the doctrine of infectious diseases of the eye . Munich 1881 (lecture)
  • Messages from the University Eye Clinic in Munich . Oldenbourg, Munich 1882–.
  • Casuistic contribution to the theory of the so-called sympathetic eye inflammation . Oldenbourg, Munich 1882.
  • Some observations on the use of the sublimate . M. Rieger, Munich 1883.
  • About the development of medical studies at the universities of Ingolstadt, Landshut and Munich: Speech to the students at the beginning of the rectorate of the Ludwig Maximilians University on November 22, 1884 . Munich, 1884.

literature

  • Otto-Erich Lund : Rothmund and the beginnings of polyclinical ophthalmology in Munich. In: The Munich Polyclinics. Marburg / Lahn 1989. pp. 77-85.
  • Oskar Eversbusch: For the 70th birthday of August von Rothmund . In: Münchener Medicinische Wochenschrift . N. 31, JF Lehmann, Munich 1900.
  • Oskar Eversbusch: In memory of Privy Councilor Professor Dr. August v. Rothmund by Oskar Eversbusch: A memorial sheet for his friends and admirers. Commemorative speech given at the meeting of the Munich Medical Association in Munich on December 12, 1906 . Bavarian Printing & Publishing Company, Munich 1906.
  • Julius Hirschberg : Germany's ophthalmologists . 1911 (Graefe-Samisch 14, 2: 345; 15, 2: 212-217).

Web links

Wikisource: August von Rothmund  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vol., Munich 1970–1976; Vol. 4, p. 41.
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 173/307.
  3. ↑ Dissertation: About the disarticulation of the lower jaw .
  4. ^ Rector's speeches (HKM) .
personal data
SURNAME Rothmund, August von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rothmund, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist, rector of the LMU
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Volkach
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1906
Place of death Munich