Julius by Michel

Julius by Michel

Julius Michel , from 1894 Ritter von Michel , (born July 5, 1843 in Frankenthal (Palatinate) , † September 29, 1911 in Berlin ) was a German ophthalmologist .

Life

Born as the son of the lawyer at the Kgl. District Court Friedrich Conrad Michel and Anna Maria Christine von Dawans, Michel attended the elementary and Latin school in Frankenthal and the Herzog-Wolfgang-Gymnasium in Zweibrücken . From 1861 he studied medicine at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , became an assistant at the Physiological Institute in Zurich in 1863 and, after returning to Würzburg in 1866, became a Dr. med. PhD. In 1867 he passed the state examination in Munich. From 1862 Michel was a member of the Corps Rhenania Würzburg .

Michel began his career as an assistant doctor at the hospital in his hometown Frankenthal, specialized in ophthalmology and in 1868 moved to the Zurich eye clinic, where he worked for Johann Friedrich Horner . In 1870 he returned to Germany and took part in the French campaign . To continue his studies, he then came to the Physiological Institute in Leipzig . His most important teacher there was the anatomist and anthropologist Gustav Schwalbe . In 1872 Michel completed his habilitation in Leipzig for ophthalmology. A year later he was appointed associate professor at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen . On January 1, 1875, he received a full professorship . In 1876 he turned down an appointment at the University of Bern , but in view of the desperate conditions in Erlangen, in 1879 he applied for the vacant chair in ophthalmology at the University of Würzburg, which he received on April 1 of that year. In Würzburg he was the successor to Robert von Welz . The construction of the new state university eye clinic in Würzburg (1899), for which he had campaigned for years, was largely thanks to Michel. In the same year he founded the magazine for ophthalmology with Hermann Kuhnt . In the spring of 1900, Michel received a call to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin to succeed Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger . When he took office there, he was at the height of his career. He taught and researched there until the last year of his life.

Karl Wessely set Michel a literary monument in his résumés from Franconia .

Honors

Because of his services to ophthalmology, Michel was awarded the Knight's Cross First Class of the Order of Merit of St. Michael in 1880 and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown on December 31, 1894 , which was associated with the elevation to the personal nobility .

Publications

• The diseases of the eyelids. 2nd edition, Leipzig 1908.
• Ophthalmology textbook. 1884.
• Clinical Guide to Ophthalmology. 1894.

literature

• Karl Huther: Julius von Michel (1843-1911). A Frankenthal scientist of international importance. Pfälzer Heimat 13 (1962), pp. 73-76.

Web links

• Julius by Michel. In: Biographical Lexicon of Excellent Physicians of the Nineteenth Century. 1901.
• Overview of Julius von Michel's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1873)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: The behavior of the retina and the optic nerve in epilepsy.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 143/140.
3. ↑ Thomas Friedel: Karl Wessely - his life, his work and his influence on ophthalmology in Germany and in the world. Dissertation, University of Würzburg 2008.