Carl Stellwag from Carion
Carl Stellwag von Carion (also: Karl Stellwag von Carion ; born January 28, 1823 in Ober Langendorf near Mährisch Neustadt ; † November 21, 1904 in Vienna ) was an Austrian ophthalmologist .
His father Alois Peter Franz Stellwag von Carion was the castle captain of Eulenburg in the service of the High and German Masters. Stellwag von Carion studied medicine in Prague and Vienna from 1841, where he received his doctorate in 1847. med. received his doctorate. He was under Anton von Rosas at the General Hospital in Vienna. Despite a ban on such examinations by Rosas, he carried out physiological and histological studies in ophthalmology. In 1848 he took over the ophthalmology department. In 1851 he briefly had a practice in Brno, but returned to Vienna to do research. In 1854 he became a private lecturer, was head of the eye department in the garrison hospital and from 1855 lecturer at the Joseph Academy ( Josephinum ). In 1857 he became an associate professor and in 1873 a full professor of ophthalmology at the University of Vienna . Previously, he had enforced the admission of the Joseph Academy Eye Clinic to the university association. In 1883 he became head of the University Eye Clinic. He retired in 1894 and also gave up his private practice in 1895. In 1883 he became a councilor.
He distinguished between errors in accommodation and refraction and, for the first time, distinguished clarity . From 1847 he undertook histological investigations, which he summarized in the multi-volume work The Ophthalmology from the scientific standpoint . At that time, however, it was already partially overtaken by Rudolf von Virchow's investigations . His textbook of practical ophthalmology from 1862, which was translated into several languages, had great success . In 1861 he supported Carl Wedl in editing the first histopathological atlas of the eye. In his later years he was not very open to innovations (he rejected asepsis ).
In 1869 he described the Stellwag sign named after him , a reduced blinking frequency in endocrine orbitopathy in the context of Graves' disease .
On October 10, 1888 , he became a member of the Leopoldina . In 1894 he received the Knight's Cross of the Leopold Order and he received the Imperial Brazilian Rose Order .
He handed over his specialist library to the University of Innsbruck.
Fonts
- The Errors of Accommodation of the Eye , 1855 Archives
- Theory of the ophthalmoscope: developed in an elementary way from the principles of optics . Vienna: Gerold 1854, digitized
- Ophthalmology from a scientific point of view . Volume 1, Freiburg: Herder 1853, Volume 2, Erlangen: Enke 1858, Volume 1, Archives , Volume 2
- Practical Ophthalmology Textbook . Vienna: Braumüller 1862, Archives
- with Carl Wedl : Atlas of the pathological histology of the eye , Leipzig: Wigand 1861, archive
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Stellwag von Carion, Karl . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 38th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1879, pp. 173–176 ( digitized version ).
- F. Krogmann: Stellwag Carl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 204 f. (Direct links on p. 204 , p. 205 ).
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- ↑ [1] Encyclopedia Medical History, p. 1072
- ^ Member entry by Karl Stellwag von Carion at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 2, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stellwag from Carion, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stellwag from Carion, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian ophthalmologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langendorf, near Mährisch Neustadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1904 |
| Place of death | Vienna |