Fuchs

Fuchs Ernst (Ernst Fuchs, 1851 - 1931), an outstanding Viennese ophthalmologist, one of the founders of modern ophthalmology, a student of Arlt. After graduating from the University of Vienna, he first worked in the surgical clinic of Billroth, and then from 1876 in Arlt's clinic. At the age of 30, he was already a professor of ophthalmology in Liège, and from 1885 he became the successor to the chair of eye diseases of the famous Jager, and here for 30 years he developed brilliant scientific and pedagogical activities, making the Vienna Eye Clinic F. a place where ophthalmologists from all over the world gathered for their improvement. A remarkable teacher, a talented clinical surgeon, F. was an exceptionally fruitful scientific researcher. He left behind about 250 works. The main direction of his scientific activity consists of deep clinical observation with careful pathological-histological analysis. Ophthalmology is indebted to F. for the study of a number of the most difficult problems. For the first time, he most vividly characterized sympathetic ophthalmopathy from the pathological-anatomical side, established new disease forms associated with his name (dystrophia epithelialis corneae Fuchs'a, keratitis superficialis punctata, heterochromia iridis, etc.). The "Guide to Eye Diseases" by F. enjoys well-deserved popularity and distribution, having gone through 15 editions and been translated into almost all European languages; in particular, there were 2 editions in Russian (the last in 1931).