Rigobert Possek

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Rigobert Possek (born December 5, 1873 in Leibnitz , † June 28, 1937 in Graz ) was an Austrian ophthalmologist.

Life

Possek was the son of the Leibnitzer medical officer Ludwig Possek. He began to study medicine at the University of Graz and became active in the Academic Corps Teutonia zu Graz in 1920 . As an inactive , he moved to the University of Innsbruck and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1900 he was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He soon became an assistant at the Graz Eye Clinic under Friedrich Dimmer . In the following years he visited the eye clinics in Breslau, Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Würzburg and Heidelberg. After returning to Graz, he completed his habilitation in ophthalmology in 1908 . From August 1914 to December 1918 he served in the Joint Army . For a time he was entrusted as a senior physician in the garrison hospital of Kaschau with the care of the trachoma patients from the eastern theater of war who had moved together there. In 1921, in the First Republic , he became Primarius of the ophthalmology department at the Hospital of the Brothers of Mercy in Eggenberg (Graz) . In 1922 he received an associate's post . In 1917 he was one of the first to use milk injections for the treatment of abortion in ophthalmic ophthalmic artery disease . He also pointed out the unspecific healing methods in the treatment of syphilitic eye diseases. He is buried in the St. Leonhard cemetery .

Publications

  • On cysts and cyst-like formations of the conjunctiva . Ophthalmologica 9 (1903), pp. 451-463.
  • On the content of the vitreous in normal and immunization-induced cytotoxins (1906)
  • A case of cortical hemianopia after trauma . Ophthalmologica 13 (1905), pp. 794-803.
  • Thyroid and Eye (1907)
  • About the antigenetic effect of the vitreous body (1907)
  • The theories about the origin of old age cataracts (1908)
  • On the aetiology of lens opacities (1909)
  • Therapeutic technique and care for eye diseases . Enke 1911.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b A. Piilat: Rigobert Possek †
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 169/140.
personal data
SURNAME Possek, Rigobert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Leibnitz , Styria
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1937
Place of death Graz