Julius von Michel

Julius von Michel ( born July 5, 1843 in Frankenthal (Pfalz ), † September 29, 1911 ) was a German ophthalmologist.

Life

Born the son of a lawyer lawyer at the Royal. District Court Friedrich Conrad Michel and Anna Maria Christina of Dawans, Michel attended elementary and grammar school in Frankenthal and high school in Zweibrücken. From 1861 he studied at the University of Würzburg Medicine, 1863 Assistant Professor at the Institute of Physiology in Zurich and in 1866 received his doctorate for Dr. med after returning to Würzburg. In 1867 he passed the state exam in Munich. Since 1862 was Michel member of the Corps Rhenaniastraße Würzburg.

Michel began his career as an assistant doctor at the hospital his home town of Frankenthal, specialized in ophthalmology and moved in 1868 Residency at the Zurich Eye Clinic, where he worked with Friedrich Horner. In 1870 he returned to Germany and took part in the French campaign. To continue his studies, he came then to the Physiological Institute in Leipzig. His principal teacher there was the anatomist and anthropologist Gustav Schwalbe. 1872 Michel habilitated in Leipzig for the subject of ophthalmology. A year later he was appointed as A.O. Professor at the University of Erlangen Sciences, where he received a full professorship at 1 January 1875. In 1876 he refused a professorship at the University of Bern, but applied in view of the desolate conditions in Erlangen in 1879 for the vacant chair of ophthalmology at the University of Würzburg, which he received on April 1 of the year. In Würzburg, he was the successor of Robert von Welz ( 1814-1878 ). The new building of the State University Eye Clinic in Würzburg (1899), for which he had fought for years, mainly Michels had merit. In the same year he founded together with Hermann Kuhnt the prestigious Journal of Ophthalmology.

In the spring of 1900, Michel was appointed to the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin to the succession of Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger. With the local office, he was at the peak of his career. He taught and conducted research there until his last year of life.

Awards

For his services to the ophthalmology Michel was on 31 December 1894, the Knight's Cross, First Class of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown of St.. Michael awarded, bringing the award of personal nobility was connected.

Works

  • The behavior of the retina and optic nerve in epilepsy ( Diss, 1866)
  • The diseases of the lids (Leipzig, 2nd edition 1908)
  • Textbook of ophthalmology (1884 )
  • Clinical Guide of ophthalmology (1894 )
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