Johann Ritter von Oppolzer
Physician, Academic
1808 – 1871
Who was Johann Ritter von Oppolzer?
Johann Ritter von Oppolzer was an Austrian physician born in Nové Hrady, Bohemia. He was the father of the astronomer Theodor von Oppolzer.
In 1835 he earned his medical doctorate at the University of Prague, and later worked as a university professor at Prague, Leipzig and Vienna, where he also served as rector in 1860/61. In 1863, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Oppolzer was an advocate of holistic diagnostics and therapy in his approach to medicine. He was also an important influence in the career of renowned otologist Adam Politzer.
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