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- Title
Wiktor Feliks Reis (1875-1943): profesor okulistyki we Lwowie.
- Authors
GRZYBOWSKI, ANDRZEJ; NAWROCKI, MATEUSZ; KITSELYUK, VOLODYMYR
- Abstract
The article contains a memoir and analysis of academic achievements of Wiktor Feliks Reis (1875-1943). He studied medicine at the Jagellonian University in Cracow and in 1898 he got the doctor of all medical sciences degree. Then he specialized in the field of ophthalmology in Paris and Berlin. After coming back to Lviv he became a volunteer and since 1906 an assistant at the Ophthalmological Department headed by prof. Emanuel Machek (1852-1930). He habilitated in the academic year of 1910/11 at the University of Lviv, then in 1911 he became a private docent at the Ophthalmologic Department till 1930. During I World War and afterwards in the Polish-Soviet War he was a head of ophthalmic wards in military hospitals. In 1930 he received the title of a professor of ophthalmology. After soviet aggression in 1939 and occupation of Lviv he was teaching at the University of Lviv. After German invasion he was forced to move to Warsaw, together with his wife, due to his Jewish background. They both died in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943. Scientific articles of Wiktor Reis comprised of infectious diseases, traumas, tumors and refraction of the eye. Many of his reports he published in Polish as well as in foreign languages, usually German and French. Reis also published his works concerning the history of ophthalmology and history of art.
- Subjects
ACADEMIC achievement; STUDY &; teaching of medicine; MILITARY hospitals; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POLAND-Russia relations; OPHTHALMOLOGISTS; HISTORY of medicine
- Publication
Archives of the History & Philosophy of Medicine / Archiwum Historii i Filozofii Medycyny, 2019, Vol 82, p90
- ISSN
0860-1844
- Publication type
Article