Johann Ritter von Oppolzer

Johann (August 4, 1808 * in Gratzen, Bohemia, † April 16, 1871 in Vienna) was an Austrian physician of Oppolzer and high school teacher and is regarded as the founder of a holistic diagnosis and therapy in the Second Vienna School of Medicine. He was the father of Theodor von Oppolzer.

Life

Johann Oppolzer had to earn a living for his school and university in Prague as a private tutor after the early death of his parents, 1835, he received his doctorate at the Charles University in Prague for Dr. med. Until 1839 he worked as a medical assistant at Julius Vincenz of Krombholz ( 1782-1843 ) at the Prague clinic and then opened his own practice as a general practitioner. He soon became one of the best physicians of Prague and was following the resignation of Krombholz his successor at the university and the hospital.

In 1848 he was appointed professor at the University of Leipzig and also took over the management of the local Jacob hospital. At Easter 1850, Count Leo von Thun- Hohenstein appointed him to the University of Vienna. His colleague Josef Škoda and Carl von Rokitansky were initially reserved about him since Oppolzer presented himself as a representative of the physiological medicine against their opinion as symptomatic pathologist. But he soon became one of the most popular teachers and was an internationally recognized and sought-after doctor. Due to its widely prescribed bathing cures, he became a patron of the Austrian spas. Next to it sat a Oppolzer also for electrotherapy and thus became an important representative of the Second Vienna School of Medicine. 1860/61 he was rector of the University of Vienna.

Among his pupils were, inter alia, Moriz Benedikt, Josef Breuer, Johann Schnitzler, Joseph blessing (1822-1904) and Wilhelm Winternitz (1835-1917), the first holder of the professorship (chair ) for hydrotherapy in Germany.

In 1854 he bought the formerly Karoline Pichler owned house in the Alserstraße 25 in the 8th district of Vienna Josefstadt.

Johann von Oppolzer died of an infection he had caught at the time of the typhus epidemic in Vienna.

His grave is in the family vault in the old arcades in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group AAL, No. 34).

Awards

Works

• Lectures on special pathology and therapy ( Oppolzer 's lectures on especial pathology and therapy). 2 vols. Produced and edited by Emil Ritter von Stoffela. Sink, Erlangen in 1866 and 1872.