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Nationality
Swiss
Name
Edmund Landolt
Role
Ophthalmology
Fields
Ophthalmology
Born
17 May 1846
Kirchberg, Switzerland (
1846-05-17
)
Institutions
Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles
Died
May 9, 1926, Paris, France
Institution
Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles
Books
Examination of the eyes, Our Alpine Flora, A manual of examination of the eyes
Landolt, Edmund, (17 May 1846 – 9 May 1926) was a Swiss ophthalmologist stationed in Paris, mostly known for a wide range of publications and his research in the field of ophthalmology.
Edmund Landolt was born in Kirchberg, Switzerland, of a French mother, Rosina Baumgartner, and Swiss father, Rudolf Landolt.
He came to France during the war in 1871 with a Swiss ambulance hospital, and was present at the battles around Belfort, where he contracted enteric fever.
Study and work
Studied at University of Zurich where he got a Ph.D. in 1869 and was through this time and later pupil of Knapp in Heidelberg, Ferdinand Arlt in Vienna, Von Graefe and Helmholtz in Berlin, Horner in Zürich, and Snellen and Donders in Utrecht.
Worked in physiological optics with, among others, Snellen and Donders.
After study and practice in Utrecht and Germany he established himself in Paris in 1874 where he became oculist to the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles.
With Panas (1832–1903) and Poncet (1849–1913) he re-founded the Archives d'ophtalmologie in 1881 and co-directed the Laboratoire d’Ophtalmologie with Javal.
Landolt's eye clinic on the Rue Saint-André-des-Arts was world-famous. There he treated, among others, Mary Cassatt, and gave her a diagnosis of cataracts.
Special fields of work
Ocular muscles and their disorders. Pioneering the work in their study and treatment.
He discovered `Landolt's bodies´ between the rods and cones of the outer nuclear layer of the retina, investigated the functions of the ocular muscles and devised a new advancement operation.
Famous for his publication of Landolt C.
English
The introduction of the metrical system into ophthalmology, London : J. & A. Churchill, 1876. OCLC 56373123
The artificial eye, London : Trübner & Co., 1879. OCLC 29693518
tr. Edgar Athelstane Browne
A manual of examination of the eyes. A course of lectures delivered at the "Ećole pratique,", Philadelphia, D. G. Brinton, 1879. OCLC 2394443
tr. Swan M Burnett
A manual of examination of the eyes. A course of lectures delivered at the "École pratique,", Philadelphia, D. G. Brinton, 1879. OCLC 4069016
On myopia, London : Harrison and Sons, 1879. OCLC 29693435
On insufficiency of the power of convergence, [S.l. : [s.n.], 1886. OCLC 29693375
The refraction and accommodation of the eye and their anomalies, Edinburgh, Pentland, 1886. OCLC 3057956
Ed. 2.: Phila., J. B. Lippincott Company., 1886. OCLC 12013230
Refraction and accommodation of the eye and their anomalies, Edinburgh, Young J. Pentland, 1886. OCLC 11626601
Cataract-operation, in our time, [Chicago] : Ophthalmic Record, 1892. OCLC 27659117
Vade mecum of ophthalmological therapeutics, Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1898. OCLC 9689831
and Gygax
On ophthalmic surgery, being the Bowman lecture delivered on Wednesday, June 7, 1911., Lond. 1911. OCLC 83292691
Defective ocular movements and their diagnosis, London, Frowde, 1913. OCLC 14798829
and Marc Landolt
French
Le grossissement des images ophthalmoscopiques, Paris : Adrien Delahaye, 1874. OCLC: 16077174
Sur les causes de l'amétropie, Paris, 1877. OCLC: 79211659
Leçons sur le diagnostic des maladies des yeux : faite à l'Ecole pratique de la Faculté de médicine de Paris, pendant le semester d'été 1875, Paris : Aux Bureaux du Progrès Médical : Ve A. Delahaye, 1877. OCLC: 16867948
L'œil artificiel, Paris : Octave Doin, 1878. OCLC: 65009615
Manuel d'ophthalmoscopie., Paris, Doin, 1878. OCLC: 14863824
Clinique des maladies des yeux. Compte rendu pour l'anneé 1878, Coulommiers : P. Brodard, 1879. OCLC: 53178656
Traité complet d'ophthalmologie, Paris : V. Adrien Delahaye, 1880-1889. OCLC: 9766547
and Louis de Wecker.
Ed. 2.: Paris, Lecrosnier et Babé, 1880-89. OCLC: 14860559
Tableau synoptique des mouvements des yeux & de leurs anomalies, Paris : Martinet, [ca.1880] OCLC: 67734772
Tableau synoptique des mouvements des yeux et de leurs anomalies, [S.l. : s.n., 188-?]. OCLC: 61653001
aa. Librairie médicale scientifique vigot frères,
Notice biographique à la mémoire du Docteur C [Johann] F[riedrich] Horner, professeur d'ophthalmologie à l'Université de Zurich, Paris : [s.n.], 1887. OCLC: 81850385
and C Johann Friedrich Horner
Notice biographique à la mémoire du Docteur T.F. Horner, professeur d'ophthalmologie à l'Université de Zurich, Paris, 1887. OCLC: 82939545
Rapport sur la question du strabisme, preś. au VIIe Congreś international d'ophthalmologie à Heidelberg, Wiesbaden, 1888. OCLC: 67724682
Opto-types simples. 2 circular disks, Paris : O. Doin, 1889. OCLC: 53178663
F. C. Donders, Paris : Steinheil, 1889. OCLC: 69060626
Un nouveau procédé d'opération dans le distichiasis, Paris, 1890. OCLC: 67724675
Un nouveau cas d'achromatopsie totale, Paris : G. Steinheil, 1891. OCLC: 53178653
H. de Helmholtz : esquisse biographique, [S.l. : s.n.], 1894. OCLC: 65101525
and H. de Helmholtz
Précis de thérapeutique ophtalmologique, Paris, Masson, 1895. OCLC: 14808861
and Gygax
Nouveaux objets-types pour la de´{t}ermination de lacute visuelle, Paris : Doin, 1899. OCLC: 65087355
Nouveau objets-types pour la détermination de l'acuité visuelle., Paris : O. Doin, 1899. OCLC: 53178619
Souvenirs sur H.Snellen, Paris : Steinheil, 1908. OCLC: 67520817
Diagnostic des troubles de la motilité oculaire, Paris, Masson, 1909. Ed. française par Marc Landolt OCLC: 14785955
Examen des mouvements normaux & pathologiques des yeux, Paris, G. Steinheil, 1916. OCLC: 5856097
Family
Married Valerie Hübscher. Two sons; Dr. Fernand Landolt, laryngologist and Dr. Marc Landolt, ophthalmologist.
Curiosity
He is mentioned in Sherlock Holmes' book The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) p. 44.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spent time with him in Paris in relation to his study in ophthalmology in Vienna.