Edmund Landolt

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Edmund Landolt

Edmund Landolt (born May 17, 1846 in Kirchberg near Aarau, a district of the municipality of Küttigen ; † May 9, 1926 in Paris , reformed , resident in Aarau ) was a Swiss ophthalmologist .

Life

Edmund Landolt was born on May 17, 1846 in Kirchberg near Aarau as the son of pastor Rudolf Landolt and Rosina, born Baumgartner. He studied medicine at the University of Zurich , which he completed in 1869 with the academic degree of Dr. med. completed. He then worked for a short time as an assistant and senior physician at Johann Friedrich Horner 's eye clinic .

He then went on study trips and completed further training in Utrecht in 1872 before moving to Paris in 1874. There he founded a private eye clinic on Rue Saint-André des Arts . In addition, he worked as an ophthalmologist at the Institution National des Jeunes Aveugles and as an employee of Émile Javal at the ophthalmological laboratory at the Sorbonne . He also co-founded the “Archives d'ophtalmologie”.

Edmund Landolt was married to Valerie, née Hübscher.

Act

Edmund Landolt set his research focus on physiological optics . He was also responsible for the development of numerous methods for examining the eyes. The Landolt rings go back to him, standardized optotypes for testing visual acuity .

literature

  • Eduard Attenhofer: Edmund Landolt. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Aargau 1803–1957. Edited by the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau. Sauerländer, Aarau 1958 (also Argovia 68/69), p. 478.
  • Eduard Attenhofer: Necrology for Edmund Landolt . In: Argovia, annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, vol. 68–69, 1958, p. 478 ( digitized version ).
  • Isidor Fischer : Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years (1880–1930). 2nd edition, Berlin / Vienna 1962, p. 855 f.
  • Christoph Mörgeli : Landolt, Edmund. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ E. Landolt: Diagnostics of the movement disorders of the eyes. Wilhelm Engelmann Publishing House, Leipzig 1907.
personal data
SURNAME Landolt, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchberg near Aarau, a district of the municipality of Küttigen
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1926
Place of death Paris