Emil Stoffella

Emil Peter Joseph Stoffella d'Alta Rupe (born August 13, 1835 in Vösendorf near Vienna , † February 16, 1912 in Vösendorf) was an Austrian internist .

The department heads of the General Polyclinic in Vienna around 1885.
From left, seated:
Alois Monti , Johann Schnitzler , Robert Ultzmann , Jakob Hock , Samuel Siegfried Karl von Basch ;
Standing from left:
August Leopold von Reuss , Stoffelka, Wilhelm Winternitz , Leopold Oser , Anton von Frisch , Hans von Hebra , Fürth, Moriz Benedikt , Viktor Urbantschitsch , Max Herz , Anton Wölfler , Ludwig Bandl

Life

Emil Stoffella graduated from high school in Vienna, studied at the Medical Faculty in Vienna from 1852 to 1857 and received his doctorate in medicine on January 5, 1858, and a doctorate in surgery on April 20, 1858. The final exam for the Magisterium of obstetrics put Emil Stoffella from 27 May. 1858 In 1860 he was appointed assistant to the medical clinic of Prof. Johann von Oppolzer . In 1862 he qualified as a private lecturer in medical propaedeutics. On December 30th, 1868 the teaching license of the private lecturer Emil Stoffella was extended to special pathology and therapy. On December 8, 1878 he was ao. Professor, 1879 head of an internal medicine department at the polyclinic. In 1882 he was appointed unpaid associate professor of special medical pathology and therapy at the University of Vienna.

Emil Stoffella wrote scientific articles on pulse measurement, on hydrotherapy of typhus abdominalis, on chorea and Graves' disease, on Koch's healing method, the fatty heart, on epilepsy and hystero-epilepsy, on symptoms of pericarditis , on the therapy of tuberculosis, etc. He found also that trigeminal neuralgia can cause dental problems. Stoffella was also a theater doctor at the k. k. Court Opera Theater in Vienna. He possessed numerous medals from home and abroad.

In 1938, the Stoffellagasse in Vienna- Leopoldstadt (2nd district) was named after him.

Works

• Oppolzer's lectures on special pathology and therapy, 2 volumes, Erlangen 1866.
• Two cases of new dentin formation as a result of trigeminal neuralgia, in: Wiener Medical Press, Vienna 1884, No. 31, 32, 34, 12 pages
• Emil von Stoffella V. Oppolzer's lectures on diseases of the oral cavity, salivary glands, throat and esophagus, Enke, 1872

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Stoffela, Emil . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 39th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1879, p. 127 ( digitized version ).
• University Archives Vienna, Medical Doctoral Protocol 1854–1865; Med. 12, No. 1, 1821-1871; Med. 9, No. 6, 1822-1881; Decree of the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Culture and Education, Z. 8332/322; Decree of the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Culture and Education, line 11021; Decree of the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Culture and Education, Z. 19255.
• Julius Pagel : Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Berlin, Vienna 1901, col. 1660–1661.
• Neue Freie Presse, August 12, 1905, p. 6 f. (70th Birthday)
• Neue Freie Presse, February 17, 1912, p. 26 (obituary)
• Franz Daxecker, Die Tiroler Gelehrtenfamilie Stoffella, in: Tiroler Heimatblätter, 2002, pp. 44–48.
• F. Daxecker:  Stoffella d'Alta Rupe Emil Richard. 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. 298 f. (Direct links on p. 298 , p. 299 ).