Salomon Klein

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Salomon Klein (born August 12, 1845 in Miskolc , † April 12, 1937 in Budapest ) was an Austrian ophthalmologist .

Life

Salomon Klein, born in Northern Hungary in 1845 , studied medicine at the University of Vienna , which he received in 1870 with the Dr. med. and chir. and graduated with a master's degree in obstetrics . He received his first job in the years 1872 to 1875 as an assistant to Eduard Jäger von Jaxtthal . He then worked as an assistant to Ludwig Mauthner (1840-1894) at the polyclinic. Klein's university career began in 1884 as a private lecturer in ophthalmology.

In 1902 he received an extraordinary titular professorship. In 1914 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Vienna. In addition, from 1895 Salomon Klein worked as head of the eye department of the outpatient clinic, as head ophthalmologist at the Rothschild Hospital and the Israelite Institute for the Blind on the Hohe Warte, and as an ophthalmologist at the hospital for scrofulous children in Baden , where he practiced in the summer from 1892 and chairman of the spa doctors was. In 1924 he resigned from the hospital practice.

Act

According to Jäger von Jaxtthal's statement, Councilor Salomon Klein is said to have had "the happiest hand he ever saw when operating ." As an excellent teacher, fluent in several languages, Klein had a large group of students, many from overseas. Klein performed successful operations well into old age. He made special contributions to the blind. It is for example the provision due to their own ophthalmologist for each institute for the blind. In addition, he developed a lively activity both verbally and in writing in the field of folk science and also played a leading role among the Austrian balneologists .

Works (selection)

  • The ophthalmoscope and its application in practical medicine , 1876
  • Ophthalmoscope studies in the mentally ill , 1877
  • Habilitation thesis on retinis paralytica
  • Ophthalmology Textbook , 1879
  • The eye and its dietetics , 1882
  • Outline of Ophthalmology , 1886
  • The mechanical treatment of eye diseases , In: Anton Bum, Handbuch der Massage, 1896
  • The syphilitic eye diseases , In: J. Neumann, Syphilis, In: Special Pathology and Therapy, edited by Hermann Nothnagel , Volume 23, 1896, p. 653 ff., 2nd edition 1899, p. 625 ff.
  • Relationships between eye diseases and balneotherapy , 1900
  • Clinical contributions to the theory of the flow direction and resorption of the anterior chamber contents , 1913

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personal data
SURNAME Small, Solomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian ophthalmologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Miskolc
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1937
Place of death Budapest