Wilhelm Viol

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Wilhelm Viol (also: Friedrich Wilhelm Viol and Fridericus Guilelmus Viol ; born April 7, 1817 in Nimptsch ; † 1874 ) was a German ophthalmologist and music writer .

Life

Doctor's career

Wilhelm Viol was the son of a royal accountant and tax collector a. D. He went through the Friedrichsgymnasium and began his medical studies in 1836. He spent the second half of his academic quadrivium in Berlin , where he was encouraged to practice ophthalmology himself in the class of Johann Christian Jüngken .

In 1842 Viol first settled in Reichenbach in Silesia as a general practitioner, where the first successful eye healings established his reputation. In 1847 he went to Breslau in order to be able to take care of eye problems there in an even more targeted manner and on a larger scale. For the poor in the city, he initiated the establishment of the Silesian Association to support and heal poor eye patients . From March 1, 1852, he operated the sanatorium for eye patients in what was then Ohlauerstraße 47 , in which more than 500 patients could be treated, mostly outpatients and some inpatients, in the first calendar year. Later, an average of 3,000 people were treated annually at the sanatorium.

From 1864 to 1874 Constantin Reichelt worked as an assistant doctor for Viol, who was in charge of the ophthalmic sanatorium and who had meanwhile been promoted to medical council.

Except in addition to his widely acclaimed book What must be done to protect the eyes of the newborn child from going blind? Viol mainly published articles in specialist journals, for example about the eyes catarrh .

Viol's successor in the management of the Wroclaw Poor Eye Sanatorium was August Albert Burchard .

The music writer and critic

Wilhelm Viol also wrote reviews of the New Music of the time, such as Richard Wagner's . Especially in the years from 1857 to 1862, Heinrich Gottwald's views and statements were sharply criticized in various writings. Viol, at times reviled as the "[...] main enemy of the New Germans", was then repeatedly criticized by various newspapers.

Works (selection)

Fonts

  • What must be done to protect the newborn child's eyes from going blind? , Breslau 1857

literature

  • Louis Posner (Red.): Breslau - About the activity of the Silesian Association for the Healing of Poor Eye Sick People , in: Allgemeine Medicinische Central-Zeitung , Vol. 24, Berlin: Expedition of the Allgemeine Medicinische Central-Zeitung (R. Liebmann), 1855, Sp 159f.
  • Heinrich Gottwald : An ophthalmologist from Breslau and the new music direction. Leipzig: Verlag von Heinrich Matthes, 1859; Digitized via Google books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Compare the information from the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c d e Hubert Unverricht: On the history of music criticism in Breslau. Dispute about the “music of the future” (1857–1862) - Gottwald versus Viol. In Alfred Reichling (ed.): Organista et homo doctus. Festschrift for Rudolf Walter's 90th birthday , Sankt Augustin: Butz, Musikverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-928412-06-3 , pp. 245–262; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ Thirty-first annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture. Contains: work and changes in society in 1853 , Breslau: pressure from Grass, Barth and Comp. (W. Friedrich), 1853, p. 212f .; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ a b Wilhelm Viol , in Alfred Graefe, Theodor Saemisch, Carl von Hess: Handbook of total ophthalmology , vol. 14, part 3, 1912, p. 202; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ Annual report of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture , Vol. 83, GP Aderholz, 1906, p. 8; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ Julius Hirschberg : History of Ophthalmology , Vol. 7, reprint of the Berlin 1918 edition, Hildesheim, New York: Olms, 1977, ISBN 978-3-487-06468-0 and ISBN 3-487-06468-5 , p. 177 ; Preview over google books
  7. ↑ Clytus Gottwald : Max Seifriz. Contributions to curriculum vitae and work (= publications of the Rottweil City Archives , vol. 23), Rottweil: Rottweil City Archives, 2004, ISBN 978-3-928873-24-6 and ISBN 3-928873-24-5 , p. 66; Preview over google books


personal data
SURNAME Viol, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Viol, Friedrich Wilhelm; Viol, Fridericus Guilelmus; Viol, Fridrich Wilhelm; Viol, Fridericus Wilhelmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, ophthalmologist, chief physician and institution director as well as music critic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Nimptsch (Silesia), later Niemcza in Poland
DATE OF DEATH 1874