Maximilian Count von Wiser

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Maximilian Count von Wiser
Window of the Chapel of Grace in Leutershausen, donated by Count Maximilian von Wiser and his mother, with the corresponding family coat of arms in the upper part

Maximilian Friedrich Joseph Graf von Wiser (* July 24, 1861 in Mainz-Kostheim , † December 22, 1938 in Bad Eilsen ) was the ducal chamberlain of Saxony-Meining , a secret medical advisor and a famous German ophthalmologist.

Life

Wiser came from the Wiser-Siegelsbach line of the Counts of Wiser . He was initially an assistant and senior physician at the University Eye Clinic in Bonn and opened his own practice in Mainz in 1900 . In 1907 he moved to Wiesbaden and in 1909 to London . In 1913 he took over the "Landes-Augenheilanstalt Herzogin Charlotte " in Bad Liebenstein , which achieved world fame under his leadership and where he treated soldiers' eye injuries sustained in the gas war during the First World War. In 1920, the Charlotte ophthalmological institution was completed, and Count Wiser was to run it until 1928. Then he went to Bad Eilsen , where he founded another internationally known eye clinic.

With his new and alternative treatment methods, such as eye compresses with lemon balm , he reformed ophthalmology and pioneered the Bates teaching in Germany.

He was married twice, but both marriages remained childless, so that with his death in 1938 the Wiser-Siegelsbach line of the Counts of Wiser expired.

Count Maximilian von Wiser founded together with his mother Adelaide nee Princess von Wrede, granddaughter of the Bavarian Field Marshal Prince Carl Philipp von Wrede , the only window in the Chapel of Grace in the pilgrimage church of St. Johannes Baptist zu Leutershausen . In the upper part there is the corresponding family coat of arms, Wiser on the left and Wrede on the right.

Fonts

  • Axial rotation of a parovarial cyst. Henry, Bonn 1895.
  • Prevention and cure of eye ailments. 3 volumes. Wilkens, Hanover 1946.
  • Preservation of the eyesight: The dangers of myopia and their prevention through proper treatment. Ritter, Berlin 1927.

literature

  • Rudolf Petzold: The Counts of Wiser and the Counts of Yrsch - two Electoral Palatinate vassal families in the eastern Kraichgau. In: Rappenauer Heimatbote. No. 16, 2005.
  • Thilo von Haugwitz: Ophthalmology in the 20th century. Enke, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-432-99391-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.heimatfreundebali.de/heimatgeschichte/gastst%C3%A4tten/m%C3%BCllers-hotel/
  2. ↑ http://www.heimatfreundebali.de/heilbad/sanatorien/augenheilanstalt-charlotte/
personal data
SURNAME Wiser, Maximilian Graf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiser, Maximilian Friedrich Joseph Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz-Kostheim
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1938
Place of death Bad Eilsen