Alfred Vogt
Alfred Vogt ( born October 31, 1879 in Menziken, † December 10, 1943 in Zurich ) was a Swiss ophthalmologist.
Vogt was next to Hans Goldmann and Franz Fankhauser (* 1924), the most influential German Swiss ophthalmologists of the 20th century. His powers of observation, his memory, his workload, but also be aggressive nature impressed Vogts image. His last three-volume work atlas of slit-lamp microscopy of the living eye and the beginning of the 21st century is still considered a standard work of slit-lamp microscopy.
Life
His father was a primary school teacher in Menziken in the canton of Aargau. Alfred Vogt attended the Gymnasium of Old Canton Aarau. From 1899 he studied briefly at the University of Zurich and to 1904 at the University of Basel Medicine, where he in 1905 with the work of The detrimental influence of artificial aniline colors on the eye doctorate. As a medical assistant, he worked at Carl Mellinger in Basel and at Carlo Reymond (1833-1911) in Turin, before he settled in 1906 in private practice in Aarau. In 1909 he became chief physician of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Kantonsspital Aarau. Vogts habilitation request to the University of Zurich in 1916 was rejected by Otto Haab. 1917 Vogt was appointed extraordinary professor at the University Eye Clinic Basel. In 1923 he was appointed as a full professor and director of the University Eye Clinic in Zurich. A professor at the University of Munich (1924 ) rejected Vogt. He died in 1943 shortly after his retirement.
Work
Vogt developed techniques for retinoscopy and for the surgical treatment of retinal detachment. From 1913 he used systematically the newly developed slit lamp in conjunction with a corneal microscope for examination of the anterior segment of the eye, resulting in his last three-volume standard work for ophthalmology with over 2,000 pictures was. Vogt, made decisive technical improvements of the device. He led the Zyklodiathermie one for the treatment of glaucoma. In 1908 he was one of the founding members of the Swiss Ophthalmological Society ( SOG).
Vogt was a strict boss doctor who brooked no argument. By strictness towards employees and their own hard work, the University Eye Clinic in Zurich developed into a highly efficient work organization. He led by Hans Goldmann from Bern many years of personal and scientific feud, including the question of whether the cataract formation was caused by heat or by infrared radiation at glassblowers. Vogt's inability to recognize achievements of others, meant that hardly one of his disciples trod own scientific way or reached its own Chair. The work of the signatories of the images of the slit-lamp findings for his atlas, and Rudolf Iseli Bregenz, Vogt honored not appropriate in the opinion of Balder Gloor. His tendency to underestimate the value of scientific achievements that have been provided elsewhere, multiple led to misjudgments Vogts.
In memory of his son Alfred Vogt junior, who had died in an avalanche in 1929 killed donated Vogt 1938, the Alfred Vogt Foundation for the Promotion of ophthalmology at the Eye Clinic of the University Hospital Zurich. These awards still printing costs and scholarships, and the Alfred Vogt- Prize " for the best scientific work in the field of ophthalmology ."
To Vogts patients were Axel Munthe and James Joyce.
After Vogt following eponyms are named: Vogt syndrome I ( Vogt cataracts), Vogt syndrome II, III Vogt syndrome ( Vogt cornea), Vogt- Koyanagi -Harada syndrome, Vogt Cephalosyndaktylie ( Apert syndrome).
Awards (selection)
Writings (selection )
- Damage to the Eye Caused by Aniline Dye.
- Atlas of the slit lamp microscopy of the living eye. Berlin, J. Springer, 1921. 2nd edition in two volumes. Springer, 1930-1931
- 3 band. F. Enke, 1942. English Translation of Volume 3. Zurich, 1947.
- English translation by FC Blodi, 3 volumes, Bonn, JP Wayenborgh, 1978-1981
- French translation, Italian translation.