Karl Bär (medic)

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Karl Bär in a doctor's coat , date of photo unknown

Karl (also Carl ) Josef Alois Bär , also Baer (born January 7, 1874 in Bregenz ; † August 19, 1952 in Krems an der Donau ), was an Austrian - Italian ophthalmologist , author , councilor and deputy mayor of Merano .

Life

Origin and family

Karl Bär was a son of Jodok Bär (1825-1897) and Maria Wilhelmine Cronenbold (1847-1907) from Prague . He had two siblings and came from the Beer family , which later settled in Andelsbuch , among others .

Karl Bär was married to Magdalena (Magda) Maria Landtmann (born October 9, 1884 in Franzensfeste , South Tyrol , † 1971), the youngest daughter of Franz Landtmann , since 1906 . He had three sons and a daughter with her, Ilse, who died in 1917 at the age of six. His sons included the future chemist and physician Friedrich Bär (1908–1992) and the future director of the Bregenz Festival Ernst Bär (1919–1985).

After Karl Bär's death, the widow moved from Meran to Bregenz , where a large part of the Bär family lived in the region.

Medical activities

Military activity

Karl Bear doctorate in 1898 at the University of Innsbruck as a doctor of Gesammtheilkunde and was used as the basis of a decree of the Reich Ministry of War one-year volunteer physicians for Medical Assistant Deputy appointed. In 1899 he was transferred as a reserve assistant doctor from Garrison Hospital No. 8 to Garrison Hospital No. 10 in Innsbruck and in 1900 he was appointed as an assistant doctor in the reserve . Around 1902 he was a secondary physician at the dermatological clinic Innsbruck with Johann Heinrich Rille . He then became assistant to Stefan Bernheimer at the Innsbruck University Eye Clinic .

Civil activity

In 1905 he retired from the military and, together with Bernheimer, co-organized the 77th meeting of the Society of German Naturalists and Doctors in Merano, of which he had been a member since 1901. In the same year he became a primary physician and briefly had a doctor's practice in Merano. At the end of 1905 he switched to the eye department of the newly opened municipal sanatorium.

Military activity in the First World War

At the beginning of the First World War in 1914, he was called up for military service and transferred from the Innsbruck Reserve Hospital to the Merano Reserve Hospital. Promoted to senior physician in 1915 , he later served as an imperial and royal Landsturm regimental physician on the Italian front, including in the 11th Landsturm District Command at the 1st Medical Facility of the Tyrolean Defense Command and began to publish findings on diseases that he treated during the war.

Further medical activity

From 1920 to 1934 he was director of the municipal sanatorium in Merano.

Local political activity

In 1908 he was elected to the municipal council of the city of Merano and remained so after several re-elections until 1922. From 1914 to 1922 he was Vice Mayor of the city, from 1919 to 1922 he took over the affairs of government from Josef Gemaßmer, before moving in February 1922 was replaced by Max Markart.

He was also active in the Vorarlberg support association (from 1899), in the Merano gymnastics association, among other things as a board member or chairman (from 1906), in the spa administration as an elected member (from 1912) and the Merano Museum Association (from 1915 to 1922).

From 1924 he was an Italian citizen.

Services

In 1906 he presented his investigations into a nerve disease of the eye, which arose from the abuse of tobacco and alcohol. He found that the wine-drinking population of South Tyrol fell ill less often than the poorer population of North Tyrol who drink schnapps.

Due to the reorganization of the area after the First World War, South Tyrol and with it Merano fell to Italy. This resulted in tensions and disputes between the Austrian population and the Italian city magistrate, which Karl Bär tried to mediate in his function as Vice Mayor and had to defend himself against constructed allegations. Through this activity he was also authorized to represent and sign for the Merano electricity works Etschwerke, as well as for the municipal gas works Merano .

For his outstanding services on the Italian front during the First World War, he was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit in 1916 with the crown on the ribbon of the Military Cross of Merit. The Signum Laudis with swords followed in 1917 .

He worked for a total of 29 years at the municipal sanatorium in Merano and was largely responsible for the establishment and expansion of the ophthalmological clinic. He worked in local politics for 14 years.

In 1930 he was accepted into the German Ophthalmological Society .

Works (selection)

  • About the treatment of syphilis with Asterol , Wiener medical Wochenschrift , Volume 52, 1902
  • A contribution to the case history of primer injuries , Archives for Ophthalmology, Volume 49, 1903, pp. 60-67
  • Investigations in tobacco- alcohol- amblyopia , Archive for Ophthalmology, Volume 54, 1906, pp. 391-399
  • Contribution to: Ellmenreich's Great Merano Guide through the spa town and its surroundings , 18th edition, 1911
  • Cataracta after wasp sting , Clinical Monthly Gazette for Ophthalmology, Volume 51, 1913, p. 314 ff.
  • The holy land of Tyrol . In: Ernst Jäckh : The great war as experience and experience, Perthes , 1916
  • Acute Graves' disease in the field , Clinical Monthly Journal for Ophthalmology, Volume 69, 1917, pp. 105 ff.
  • Two notable cases of eye diseases in tuberculosis of the lungs , Clinical Monthly Journal for Ophthalmology, Volume 61, 1918, pp. 402 ff.
  • On copper opacity of the lens , Clinical Monthly Journal for Ophthalmology, Volume 70, 1923, pp. 174 ff.
  • A notable case of fire marks and glaucoma , Zeitschrift für Augenheilkunde, Volume 57, 1925, pp. 628 ff.
  • Notes on the spread of corneal astigmatism , Clinical Monthly Journal for Ophthalmology, Volume 74, 1925, p. 374 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the registry office Krems an der Donau No. 243/1952.
  2. ↑ Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German who's who . Schmidt Rönhild, 1984, p. 39 ( google.de [accessed April 30, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Meraner Zeitung . No. 4 , January 10, 1906, p. 2 .
  4. ^ Bolzano News . No. 146 , July 1, 1898, p. 4 .
  5. ^ Bolzano News . No. 123 , May 31, 1899, pp. 1 .
  6. ↑ Central sheet for practical ophthalmology . 1905, p. 148 ( google.de [accessed April 15, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Maiser Wochenblatt - general gazette of the Unter- and Obermaiser clubs and associations for the city of Merano . tape 23 , 2014, p. 10 .
  8. ↑ Dolomites . No. 111 , September 16, 1935, p. 5 .
  9. ^ Bolzano News . No. 119 , May 23, 1908, pp. 5 .
  10. ↑ a b South Tyrolean regional newspaper . No. 46 , February 25, 1922, p. 3 .
  11. ↑ The Burggräfler . No. 40 , May 20, 1914, pp. 7 .
  12. ↑ South Tyrolean Provincial Archives - photo by Karl Bär. Retrieved April 15, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Meraner Zeitung . No. 212 , December 31, 1923, p. 1 .
  14. ↑ Meraner Zeitung . No. 142 , June 20, 1924, pp. 3 .
  15. ↑ H. Orthner: The methyl alcohol poisoning: with special consideration of novel brain findings . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-662-11516-9 , pp. 69 ( google.de [accessed April 17, 2018]).
  16. ↑ discomfort . Universitätsverlag Wagner, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7030-0472-8 ( google.de [accessed April 15, 2018]).
  17. ↑ The Sciliar . Vogelweider, 1999, p. 772 ( google.de [accessed April 15, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Fogli Annunzi Legali Prefettura Trento . 1919, p. 21 .
  19. ↑ Meraner Zeitung . No. 118 , May 23, 1916, p. 4 .
  20. ↑ Meraner Zeitung . September 22, 1917, p. 3 .
  21. ^ A. Wagenmann: Report on the forty-eighth meeting of the German Ophthalmological Society in Heidelberg 1930 . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-92367-8 , pp. 388 ( google.de [accessed April 15, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Bear, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bär, Josef Alois Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Italian doctor, author, councilor and Vice Mayor of Merano
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Bregenz
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 1952
Place of death Krems at the Donau