Leopold Anton Gölis

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Leopold Anton Gölis, painted by Eduard Friedrich Leybold , engraved by Franz Xaver Stöber

Leopold Anton Gölis (born October 19, 1764 in Weissenbach , Styria , † February 20, 1827 in Vienna ) was an Austrian pediatrician .

Life

After the Piarist school in Gleisdorf, Gölis attended the grammar school and the lyceum in Graz . In 1788 he moved to Vienna and studied medicine at the University of Vienna . Gölis received his doctorate in 1793 and worked as a general practitioner from 1794. In the same year he took over the management of the Children's Sickness Institute founded by Joseph Johann Mastalier in the Wollzeile , in which children of destitute parents were treated free of charge. While the institute was previously financed only from donations, Gölis converted the facility into a public institute. Gölis headed the institute for 32 years and was appointed medical councilor by Emperor Franz II for his services . In addition, from 1821 Gölis was the personal physician of the son of Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria .

Gölis was an important pioneer in the development of pediatrics into a specialty and is therefore considered the founder of pediatrics . However, due to lack of time, Gölis could not do any actual teaching. Gölis recorded his experiences in his suggestions for improving physical education in the first periods of life . In his two-volume practical treatises , he reported in particular on "heated cerebral dropsy in the brain" and chronic hydrocephalus . In the second volume of this work he gave an overview of the frequency of and reported on 137 diagnoses that were made in his institute.

Works

  • Warning of skin tan, a dangerous and rapidly killing disease in children. Anton Strauss, Vienna 1807.
  • Suggestions for improving physical child-rearing in the first periods of life. With warnings of treacherous diseases, harmful customs and perishable clothing. Anton Strauss, Vienna 1811 ( digitized in the Google book search).
    • 2nd edition: Proposals for improving the physical education of children in the first periods of life with warnings of treacherous and rapidly killing diseases, harmful habits and customs, and perishable items of clothing. Carl Gerold, Vienna 1823 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • Tractatus de rite cognoscenda et sananda angina membranacea. Anton Strauss, Vienna 1813 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  • Practical treatises on the more excellent diseases of childhood. Carl Gerold, Vienna.
    • Vol. 1: From the heated brain cavity dropsy. 1815 ( digitized ).
    • Vol. 2: From the internal chronic water head and from the different types of the external water head. 1818 ( digitized ).

literature

personal data
SURNAME Gölis, Leopold Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1764
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenbach , Styria
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1827
Place of death Vienna