Marc Dufour
Marc Dufour (born April 21, 1843 in Villeneuve ; † July 29, 1910 in Lausanne , resident in Le Châtelard ) was a Swiss ophthalmologist and politician .
Dufour received his doctorate in medicine in Zurich in 1865 . He then began training in ophthalmology with Johann Friedrich Horner in Zurich, with Albrecht von Graefe in Berlin and Paris . From 1869 he headed the Eye Clinic in Lausanne and was appointed professor of ophthalmology in 1890 when the University of Lausanne was founded. Through his work he developed into an internationally famous eye surgeon .
Between 1874 and 1886 he was on the city council of Lausanne and as early as 1885 campaigned for women's suffrage in Switzerland as a member of the constitutional council of the canton of Vaud .
In 1903 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Lausanne. In Lausanne, a quarter in the Montriond / Cour district , a street and a bridge near the train station were named after him.
Works
- La constance de la force et les mouvements musculaires , Genton, Voruz & Dutoit, Lausanne 1865, OCLC 59758321 (Dissertation University of Zurich 1865, 73 pages).
- Traité des maladies de la rétine , 1906
- Traité des maladies du nerf optique , 1908
literature
- Julius Hirschberg : history of ophthalmology, 3rd book . 1918, p. 34-37 .
- Marie Dufour: Petite chronique de la famille Dufour originaire du Châtelard-Montreux, réalisée pour les descendants de Marc Dufour, professeur d'ophtalmologie / Marie Dufour . 1994.
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| SURNAME | Dufour, Marc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss doctors and politicians |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Villeneuve |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1910 |
| Place of death | Lausanne |