Isidore Schnabel

Isidor Schnabel , also Joseph Schnabel (born November 14, 1842 in Neubidschow , Bohemia , † December 4, 1908 in Vienna ) was an Austrian ophthalmologist and eye surgeon.

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. Isidor Schnabel is the third from the left standing behind. Edmund von Neusser , Siegmund Exner-Ewarten , 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

Schnabel went to school in Prague, studied medicine in Prague (among others with Joseph Hasner von Artha ) and at the University of Vienna, where he received his doctorate in 1865. Afterwards he was assistant to Eduard Jäger von Jaxtthal at the General Hospital in Vienna in the department of ophthalmology, where he often practically headed the department because Jaeger was often ill. In 1871 he completed his habilitation in Vienna (on the position and size of the upright retinal images) and in 1877 he became a full professor at the University of Innsbruck as successor to Ludwig Mauthner . In 1885 he became a professor at the University of Graz , in 1890 at the German University of Prague (as successor to Hubert Sattler ) and in 1895 he received the chair at the University of Vienna (1st University Eye Clinic at the General Hospital) as successor to Carl Stellwag von Carion or Ludwig Mauthner (who died before he could succeed him). He became a councilor . He likely died of a heart attack in the courtyard of the General Hospital on the way to his clinic.

He did research on glaucoma (glaucoma) and myopia and was known for his skills as an eye surgeon and academic teacher.

Anton Elschnig was one of his students . Schnabel was the head of the Vienna Ophthalmological Society.

literature

• J. Lauber:  Schnabel, (Joseph) Isidor. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 353 f. (Direct links on p. 353 , p. 354 ).
• Julius Hirschberg , History of Ophthalmology, Berlin 1918, Reprint Hildesheim: Olms 1977, Volume 7, pp. 403f

Web links

• Isidor Schnabel in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ^ The college of professors at 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 .