This book by Gabriela Schmidt-Wyklicky presents the first complete scientific monograph dealing with Ernst Fuchs (1851–1930), the most important Austrian ophthalmologist at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. By his patho-histologic research work and his innovative, international teaching methods as well as by his textbook on Ophthalmology, which was translated into English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Chinese, Fuchs gained the highest appreciation worldwide. Thus, Fuchs raised the Vienna School of Ophthalmology in this field to the international leading position for five decades.

This book by Gabriela Schmidt-Wyklicky presents the first complete scientific monograph dealing with Ernst Fuchs (1851–1930), the most important Austrian ophthalmologist at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. By his patho-histologic research work and his innovative, international teaching methods as well as by his textbook on Ophthalmology, which was translated into English, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Chinese, Fuchs gained the highest appreciation worldwide. Thus, Fuchs raised the Vienna School of Ophthalmology in this field to the international leading position for five decades.