Karl Schlösser (medic)

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Karl Schlösser (born June 2, 1857 in Mannheim , † August 8, 1925 in Schaftlach ) was a German ophthalmologist and art collector.

Life

Karl Schlösser grew up in Munich, where his father, the particular Ludwig Schlösser, had settled. In 1876 he passed the Abitur at the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium , among others with Rudolf von Hößlin , Gustav von Schoch , Carl Seitz and Ludwig Wüllner . He then studied medicine at the universities of Munich and Göttingen. In 1877 he became a member of the Corps Isaria in Munich . In Göttingen he joined the Corps Hannovera in 1879 . In 1882 he received his medical license. In 1883 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He then worked as August von Rothmund's assistant at the Munich University Eye Clinic, where he qualified as a professor in the field of ophthalmology in 1887 . Initially a private lecturer, he was appointed associate professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in 1900 and founded a private ophthalmic institute in Munich, which was one of the larger institutions of this type. In 1914/15 he was employed as a senior staff doctor at the stage inspection of the 2nd Army of the Bavarian military hospital department and was awarded the Military Merit Order of the 4th class with crown and swords . He died on his country estate "Allgäuhaus" near Schaftlach in Upper Bavaria .

His scientific field of work included work on cataracts , punctiform corneal inflammation , the use of mercury oxide in ophthalmology, measurement of the pupil size , extraction of iron fragments using magnets as well as the accommodation of lensless eyes and the assessment of general ailments through visual field examinations .

From 1904, Schlösser was the first chairman of the Munich Corpsphilister Association . In the Association of Old Corps Students he was 2nd Chairman of the Central Committee. The Corps Isaria elected him an honorary member. Since locks had no children, he left his two Corps considerable part of his fortune as a legacy , this was as the Corps Hannovera Foundation conducted.

Art collection

Arnold Böcklin : Lost Venus , lot 14 in the Helbig catalog of November 14, 1931

Karl Schlösser was a well-known art collector. In his collection of paintings, artists from the Munich School formed a focus. After his death, his collections were auctioned in two auctions on November 14, 1931 and December 9, 1931 at the Hugo Helbig Gallery in Munich.

Fonts

  • On the comparative pathological anatomy and etiology of mastitis . Inaugurial dissertation from the University of Munich. JB Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1883.
  • The best type of visual field examination for practice, its main results and tasks . Marhold, Halle adSaale 1901.
  • Alcohol injections for trigeminal neuralgia , in: Zeitschrift für Augenheilkunde, Vol. 10, 1903, p. 335.

literature

  • Julius Pagel (ed.): Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin, Vienna 1901, Sp. 1505. ( Permalink ).
  • Isidor Fischer (ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years. Vol. 2. Berlin and Vienna 1933.
  • Hermann Degener (Ed.): Who is it ?, 4th edition, Leipzig 1909.
  • Paul Michelsen: Karl Schloesser in memory , in: Deutsche Corpszeitung, 42nd year, Frankfurt am Main, October 1925, No. 7, pp. 201–203.
  • Heinrich F. Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Vol. 1: 1809-1899 . Göttingen 2002, No. 748.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 109/608.
  2. ^ Address book Munich 1874
  3. ^ Annual report on the K. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1875/76
  4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42/727.
  5. ^ Habilitation thesis: Experimental study of traumatic cataract .
  6. ↑ https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10956/1/pvz_lmu_1921_22_wise.pdf
  7. ↑ https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/12170418.pdf
  8. ^ Carl Schlösser at corpsarchive.de
  9. ^ Carl Schlösser at corpsarchive.de
  10. ^ Catalog of oil paintings and hand drawings of the XIX. and XX. Century from the estate of university professor Dr. Karl Schlösser, Allgäuhaus near Schaftlach and other possessions , 1931 (digitized)
  11. ↑ Catalog: Old applied arts, sculptures, wall and oriental carpets, furniture, paintings by old masters: from the estate of University Professor Dr. Karl Schlösser, Munich, from the Merkens Collection, Cologne, from the estate of a Central German collector and from other possessions , 1931 (digitized version)
personal data
SURNAME Schlösser, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Locks, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1925
Place of death Shaft laugh