Otto Bergmeister

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Professor Otto Bergmeister

Otto Bergmeister (born February 15, 1845 in Silz , Tyrol, † October 3, 1918 in Vienna ) was an Austrian surgeon and ophthalmologist .

Life

He was born on February 15, 1845 as the son of the regional court administrator Johann Anton Bergmeister and Friederike geb. Pircher born in Silz. After graduating from high school in Innsbruck, he studied at the University of Vienna, where he received his doctorate in medicine and surgery in 1870. He was initially a student and later assistant to Professor Ferdinand von Arlt .

In 1874 Bergmeister completed his habilitation in ophthalmology. From the summer semester of 1877, he worked as a private lecturer at the University of Vienna, where he introduced the trainees to ophthalmology diagnostics in five-week courses and gave theoretical and practical lessons in surgical ophthalmology. In 1892 he became an associate professor at the University of Vienna. A year later he was given the primary position in the ophthalmological department of the Rudolf Foundation . Otto Bergmeister was an excellent doctor who was consulted by many eye sufferers. Among his best-known patients were the mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger , the folk writer Wilhelm Wiesberg and the geographer Friedrich Simony , on whom he performed a cataract operation at the age of 80.

In February 1914, Bergmeister was sued by a patient at the Vienna Civil District Court for damages and a lifelong pension. The plaintiff alleged that he had lost his left eye by performing an operation that Rudolf Bergmeister had performed as a guest on his father's ward. Professor Bergmeister was also charged because, as the head of the clinic, he did not monitor the follow-up treatment of the operation that had been carried out during his vacation time. After going through all the instances, the lawsuit was dismissed as a causal connection between the loss of eyesight and the operation could not be established.

On the occasion of his retirement in May 1916, Otto Bergmeister was awarded the title of Hofrat. He intended to pass on his department in the Rudolfspital for the duration of the war, but this plan was suddenly ruined by a stroke.

Scientific achievement

Bergmeister was interested in the entire field of eye diseases, he was particularly dedicated to the development of the eye as well as eye inflammations and infections. He wrote several scientific papers, including a treatise on "Intoxikationsamblyopien" (weak-sightedness due to the action of toxic substances). His editing of the compendium of ophthalmology written by Max Tetzer and the articles in the annual reports of the Lower Austrian state institution for the blind in Purkersdorf were widely used.

In addition to his scientific and medical work, Bergmeister has earned merit as president of the widows 'and orphans' association of the Vienna Medical Doctoral College and as secretary of the Society of Doctors in Vienna .

Comments on the personal environment

Otto Bergmeister was married twice. His wife Hedwig died in January 1905. Johanna Bergmeister, whom the widower married after the year of mourning had passed , frequented the upper class and did excellent work in the field of the blind. Professor Bergmeister is buried next to his wife Hedwig at the Vienna Central Cemetery.

The Bergmeistergasse in Vienna-Hernals named after him was renamed Goldscheidgasse after the Second World War.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dorfbuch Silz, p. 290
  2. ^ Wiener Zeitung, August 20, 1874, non-official part, p. 1, Official Gazette of the Wiener Zeitung, April 4, 1877, p. 1 and May 25, 1889, p. 2
  3. ^ Lueger: Neue Freie Presse, February 23, 1907, p. 30 and March 14, 1907, p. 8; Wiesberg: Neues Wiener Journal, June 6, 1896, p. 5, Simony: Deutsches Volksblatt, April 10, 1994, No. 1892
  4. ↑ Neues Wiener Journal, February 21, 1914, p. 11 and May 2, 1914, p. 8
  5. ↑ Grazer Tagblatt, May 31, 1916, p. 2
  6. ↑ Neue Freie Presse, June 1, 1916, p. 11. For the stroke, see the relevant attachment in the list of members of the association “Das Künstlerhaus”, of which Bergmeister was a supporting member [1]
  7. ↑ digitized version of the work
  8. ^ Neue Freie Presse, May 30, 1916, p. 23
  9. ↑ Neues Wiener Abendblatt, January 30, 1905
  10. ^ Deutsches Volksblatt, January 25, 1907, p. 9; Neue Wiener Presse, December 20, 1914, p. 16 and a.
  11. ↑ Group 42, Extension A, Row G1, Grave No. 8
personal data
SURNAME Bergmeister, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian surgeon and ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Silz , Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1918
Place of death Vienna