Ferdinand von Arlt

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Carl Ferdinand von Arlt, lithograph by Adolf Dauthage , 1859

Carl Ferdinand von Arlt , from 1870 Ritter von Bergschmidt , also Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt (born April 18, 1812 in Obergraupen / Teplitz , Bohemia, † March 7, 1887 in Vienna ), was an Austrian doctor and ophthalmologist .

Live and act

Ferdinand Arlt attended high school in Leitmeritz and moved to Prague with his brother in 1831 to study Catholic theology . During his philosophical studies at the local Lyceum, however, he changed faculties, began and, with great privation, completed a medical degree at Charles University. He received his doctorate in medicine and surgery in 1839 and in 1840 assistant to the professor of ophthalmology Johann Fischer in Prague. In 1842 he opened a private practice for internal medicine, but also for surgery. In 1849 he became a full professor of ophthalmology at the University of Prague . From 1856 to 1883 he was professor at the University of Vienna and, as successor to Anton von Rosas, he was also head and professor of the eye clinic until 1883. He reformed this first university eye clinic in the world and, by applying pathology , physiology and histology to ophthalmology, became one of the founders of this subject as a separate science. His textbook “The Diseases of the Eye for Practical Doctors” (3 volumes, 1851–1856) was distributed worldwide. Albrecht von Graefe , who had known him since autumn 1848 and became friends later, was one of his most important students, as was the Duke and ophthalmologist Carl Theodor in Bavaria . The Würzburg professor Tröltsch learned the basics of ear medicine from Arlt. Arlt was close friends with Ignaz Gulz , another important Viennese ophthalmologist.

The social scientist Ilse Arlt is his granddaughter.

In 1850 he became an honorary member of the Reading and Speech Hall of German Students in Prague, in 1869 of the Vienna Academic Choral Society (today Sängerschaft Barden) and later also of the Reading Society of German Students in Vienna and the Academic Reading Society of Vienna.

In a nine-part sentence with famous Austrian doctors, a stamp with his picture appeared in 1937.

In 1887 the Arltgasse in Vienna- Ottakring (16th district) was named after him. The former Ferdinand von Arlt Academy was named after him. He was buried in an honorary grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery .

Fonts

Ferdinand von Arlt monument in Graupen (Krupka)
  • The care of the eyes in a healthy and sick state, along with an appendix about the eye glasses. Prague 1846.
  • The diseases of the eye for general practitioners. 3 volumes, Prague 1851–1856.
  • Operating theory . (1874)
  • Handbook of the entire ophthalmology , ed. von Arlt [et al.] edited by Alfred Graefe and Theod. Saemisch . 7 volumes. Leipzig, Engelmann, 1874–80.
  • About the causes and development of myopia. Vienna 1876.
  • My experiences. Wiesbaden 1887.

literature

Web links

Commons : Carl Ferdinand von Arlt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Ferdinand von Arlt  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Krogmann: Ferdinand von Arlt (1812-1887) under the aspect of his relationships with German scientists. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 13, 1995, pp. 59-66; here: p. 59.
  2. ↑ Dissertatio inauguralis medica, sistens historias amauroseos et vitiis organicis cerebri quatuor […]. Prague 1839.
  3. ^ Frank Krogmann: Ferdinand von Arlt (1812-1887) under the aspect of his relationships with German scientists. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 13, 1995, pp. 59-66; here: p. 59 f.
  4. ^ Frank Krogmann: Ferdinand von Arlt (1812-1887) under the aspect of his relationships with German scientists. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 13, 1995, pp. 59-66; here: pp. 60–64.
  5. ↑ Frank Krogmann: Gulz, Ignaz. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon from 1815 - online. November 27, 2017, accessed March 4, 2020 .
  6. ^ Grave site Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt , Vienna, Central Cemetery, Group 12, Group Extension C, Row 13, No. 22.
personal data
SURNAME Arlt, Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arlt, Carl Ferdinand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian surgeon and ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Caterpillars
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1887
Place of death Vienna