Philipp Franz von Walther

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Philipp Franz von Walther

Philipp Franz von Walther (born January 3, 1782 in Burrweiler , Rheinpfalz , † December 29, 1849 in Munich ) was a German surgeon and ophthalmologist .

Life

Philipp Franz was born as the second oldest child of his parents Franz Joseph (1743-1811) and Margarethe (1748-1823) of Walter in the Rheinpfalz. At the age of 15 he began studying philosophy and medicine at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and then studied for another 3 years with Georg Joseph Beer and Johann Peter Frank in Vienna . He received his doctorate in Landshut in 1803 and was then appointed professor of surgery at the General Hospital in Bamberg.

In 1804 he went to Landshut University as professor of physiology and surgery , where he was appointed rector in 1811.

In 1814 he married Antoinette von Podewils (1792–1875), sister of the later Germersheim fortress commander Franz Friedrich Jakob von Podewils (1779–1842). The marriage had four children.

From 1818 to 1830 he was professor for surgery and ophthalmology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

From 1820 he published the journal for surgery and ophthalmology with Karl von Graefe . In 1830 he became the chief surgeon for surgery and ophthalmology in the municipal hospital in Munich . Von Walther was the personal physician of Ludwig I (Bavaria) . Between 1833 and 1852 von Walther published a six-volume work on surgery and published reports on eye diseases in four volumes.

Von Walther is considered to be the co-founder of German scientific surgery and ophthalmology. His findings on the cause of the eye disease cataract were groundbreaking.

He died at the age of 67 and was buried in the Old Southern Cemetery in Munich.

tomb

Grave of Philipp Franz von Walther on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

The tomb of Philipp Franz von Walther is located in the Old South Cemetery in Munich (New Arkadenplatz 167 at cemetery 29) location . The grave monument is a portrait statue created in 1850 by the sculptor Johann von Halbig .

Honors

In 1816 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . Since 1839 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

literature

  • Carl Anton Werres : First protective agent and specificum against contigious eye inflammation on the Lower Rhine; Polemic against all defenders of this disease, initially against the Medicinalrath Mr. Prof. von Walther, as a reply to the assertion of the existence of the same in the Brauweiler Labor Institute. JP Bachem, Cologne 1821, 333 pp.
  • Wilhelm Neuhann: Philipp Franz von Walther as an ophthalmologist : depicted after the transcript of his lectures from the years 1843/44 made by Max Gemminger . Demeter, Graefelfing 1986, series of publications by the Munich Association for the History of Medicine, Volume 19.
  • Gottfried Vesper, Leipzig, Ärzteblatt Sachsen 4/2006, p. 176.
  • Werner E. Gerabek : Walther, Philipp Franz von. In: Werner E. Gerabek, Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1465.
  • Georg Korn:  Walther, Philipp Franz von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 121 f.

Web links

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogical website on Antoinette von Podewils ( Memento from July 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Stadtsparkasse München, restoration of selected grave monuments on Munich's Altes Südfriedhof, report with a short biography on Franz von Walther, October 30, 2006 ( Memento from September 12, 2012 in the archive.today web archive )
  3. ^ List of members Leopoldina, Philipp Franz von Walther
  4. ↑ Google Books - digitized
personal data
SURNAME Walther, Philipp Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walther, Franz von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German surgeon, ophthalmologist and university lecturer in Munich
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Burrweiler , Rhine Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1849
Place of death Munich