!!!Arlt, Ferdinand von

b. Krupka, Czech Republic (then Ober-Graupen), April 18, 1812, 
d. Vienna, March 7, 1887, eye specialist, taught first in Prague, from 
1858-1883 professor in Vienna, major reformer in the field of 
ophthalmology, first to discover the cause of short-sightedness.

!Works
Die Krankheiten des Auges, 3 vols., 1851; Die Kurzsichtigkeit, 
Entstehung und Ursachen, 1878.

!Literature
OeBL.



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