Philipp Franz von Walther
Philipp Franz von Walther | |
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| Born | 3 January 1782 |
| Died | 29 December 1849 (aged 67) |
| Education | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Landshut (PhD, 1803) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ophthalmology |
| Workplaces | University of Bamberg, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Landshut, University of Bonn, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
Academic advisors | Georg Joseph Beer Johann Peter Frank |
Notable students | Johannes Peter Müller[1] |
Philipp Franz von Walther (3 January 1782 – 29 December 1849) was a German surgeon and ophthalmologist.
Biography
[edit]He was born in Burrweiler. He studied medicine in Vienna under Georg Joseph Beer and Johann Peter Frank, obtaining his medical doctorate in 1803 from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Landshut. He subsequently served as a professor at the University of Bamberg, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Landshut, the University of Bonn (1818–1830), and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (successor of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Landshut).[2] Among his better known students were Johannes Peter Müller (1801–1858) at the University of Bonn, and Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793–1864) and Cajetan von Textor (1782–1860) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Landshut.
Walther is best known for his pioneer work in ophthalmology and ophthalmic surgery. In 1826, he described the first tarsorrhaphy for closure of a portion of the eyelids for partial ectropion. In the treatise Ueber die Hornhautflecken, he gave an early account of corneal opacity.
With Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe (1787–1840), he was co-editor of Journal der Chirurgie und Augenheilkunde, an influential journal of surgery and ophthalmology. Walther is credited with performing numerous experiments involving medical galvanism.
He died in Munich.
Selected works
[edit]- Ueber die therapeutische Indication und den Techniscismus der galvanischen Operation, 1803.
- Ueber das Alterthum der Knochenkrankheiten, 1825.
- Ectropicum anguli oculi externi, eine neue Augenkrankheit und die Tarsoraphie, eine neue Augen-Operation (Ectropicum anguli externi oculi, a new eye disease and tarsorrhaphy, a new eye surgery), 1826.
- Ueber die Trepanation nach Kopfverletzungen (On trepanation for head injuries), 1831.
- Die Lehre vom schwarzen Star und seine Heilart; Pathologie und Therapie der Amarose (Pathology and treatment of amaurosis), 1840.
- Ueber die Amaurose nach Superciliar-Verletzungen, 1840.
- Ueber die Revaccination (Involving re-vaccination), 1844.
- Ueber die Hornhautflecken (About spots on the cornea), 1845.
- Kataraktologie, Beobachtung einer Cornea conica im chirurgisch-ophthalmologischen Klinikum in München (Observation of a cornea conica in the surgical eye hospital at Munich), 1846.
- Wieder-Anheilung einer ganz abgehauenen Nase (S.521-235, 1 Taf.). and Nachricht über die Anheilung einer, zwei Stunden lang völlig abgetrennten Nase; ein Sendschreiben des R.Markiewicz an C.F. Graefe (S.536-537).
References
[edit]- ↑ Gregor Schiemann, Hermann von Helmholtz's Mechanism: The Loss of Certainty: A Study on the Transition from Classical to Modern Philosophy of Nature, Springer, 2008, p. 70.
- ↑ ADB: Walther, Philipp Franz von at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
External links
[edit]- Philipp Franz von Walther at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Genealogy Database Entry Philipp Franz von Walther
- Antiquariat für Medizin
- Ophthalmic surgery by Charles Heady Beard, article on tarsorrhaphy.
