Ernst Fuchs (medic, 1851)

Memorial plaque in the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna

The professors at the Medical University of Vienna, chalk drawing by Olga Prager, Vienna 1908–1910. In the Dean's Office of the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna. Edmund von Neusser , Siegmund Exner-Ewarten , Isidor Schnabel , Ferdinand Hochstetter , Alfons Edler von Rosthorn , Anton Weichselbaum , Leopold Schrötter von Kristelli , Heinrich Obersteiner , Julius Wagner-Jauregg , Viktor von Ebner-Rofenstein , Carl Toldt , Gustav Riehl , Ottokar von Chiari , Anton von Frisch , Ernst Fuchs, Anton Freiherr von Eiselberg , Hans Horst Meyer , Ernst Ludwig , Rudolf Chrobak , Theodor Escherich , Alexander Kolisko , Julius von Hochenegg , Arthur Schattenfroh , Carl von Noorden , Emil Zuckerkandl , Richard Paltauf , Gustav Gärtner , Leopold Oser , Josef Moeller , Alois Monti , Julius Mauthner , Viktor Urbantschitsch , August Leopold von Reuss , Adolf von Strümpell , Ernest Finger , Adolf Lorenz , Friedrich Schauta

Ernst Fuchs (born June 14, 1851 in Kritzendorf , Lower Austria ; † November 21, 1930 in Vienna ) was an Austrian ophthalmologist . He was the son of Adalbert Nikolaus Fuchs .

Life

Ernst Fuchs was a professor at the University of Liège from 1881 to 1885 and then head of the Vienna Eye Clinic until 1915. He is considered the founder of the pathological anatomy of the eye and put on a collection of eye incisions. He also established the histological foundation of clinical pictures and developed new surgical methods.

In 1887 he founded the Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift with Heinrich von Bamberger .

His relief in the arcade courtyard of the University of Vienna comes from the sculptor Josef Müllner . The Fuchsgasse in Kritzendorf is named after him . In 1886 he was accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , and since 1921 he has been an honorary citizen of the City of Vienna

Ernst Fuchs became an honorary member of the Society of Doctors in Vienna in 1927 .

The following are named after him:

• Fuchs syndrome I , a special form of erythema exudativum multiforme
• Fuchs syndrome II or Fuchs endothelial dystrophy
• Fuchs syndrome III or Fuchs heterochromic iridocyclitis
• Fox spot

Works

• Ernst Fuchs, Textbook of Ophthalmology , 1889 (published in 18 editions until 1945, the last ed. By Adalbert Fuchs)
• Ernst Fuchs, How an ophthalmologist saw the world. Autobiography and diary sheets , ed. v. Adalbert Fuchs, 1946

literature

• Marlene Jantsch :  Fuchs, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 677 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Fuchs Ernst. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 378.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in the "Ophthalmology Hall of Fame" (including video)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The faculty of the medical faculty of the University of Vienna, Vienna 1908-1910 . Photo credits: Collections of the Medical University of Vienna - Josephinum, picture archive; Associated personal identification .
2. ↑ This is currently in the Josephinum (collections of the Medical University of Vienna, Vienna IX)
3. ^ Karl Heinz Tragl: History of the Society of Doctors in Vienna since 1838 , Vienna: Böhlau 211, p. 254
4. ↑ Member entry by Ernst Fuchs at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 11, 2015.
5. ^ "Citizens of the City of Vienna" on the website of the City of Vienna
6. ^ Karl Heinz Tragl: History of the Society of Doctors in Vienna since 1838 . Böhlau, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78512-5 , pp. 266 .