Victor Morax

Victor Morax ( born March 16, 1866 in Morges, † May 14, 1935 in Paris, home justified in Mex, later naturalization in France) was a Swiss physician.

Life

Victor Morax grew up with his brothers Jean and René to the son of a cantonal physician. He studied medicine in Paris and earned a doctorate in 1892, he continued his life in Paris.; first at the Institut Pasteur and as a resident physician at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, in which Jean Martin Charcot was also active. He had trained as a Opthalmologen later at the Hôpital Lariboisière and then headed until his retirement in 1929, the ophthalmologic department of the hospital.

Morax erlang worldwide fame with his research on eye diseases caused by bacteria, a bacillus was named after him, and trachoma, the results of which were published in 1929. He was editor of the Annales d' oculistique and was a member of the Medical Academy in France.