Friedrich August von Ammon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German surgeon, ophthalmologist
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Place of Birth: Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Friedrich August von Ammon
- Friedrich August von Ammon (10 September 1799 – 18 May 1861) was a German surgeon and ophthalmologist born in Göttingen.
- He was the son of theologian Christoph Friedrich von Ammon (1766–1850).
- He studied medicine at the Universities of Göttingen and Leipzig, and following an educational journey through Germany and Paris, he settled in Dresden in 1823 as a physician.
- Here his primary focus dealt with surgical and surgical-anatomical duties.
- In 1828 he attained the title of professor, becoming director of the surgical-medical academy in Dresden.
- In 1837 he was named royal physician to Friedrich August II, King of Saxony.Known for his work in ophthalmology, he was instrumental in making Dresden a center of ophthalmic learning during his lifetime.
- In 1830 founded Zeitschrift fĂĽr die Ophthalmologie, an early journal devoted to ophthalmology.
- In his prize-winning book, De Iritide (1835), he made contributions involving investigations of iritis and sympathetic ophthalmia.
- His most ambitious written effort in the field of ophthalmology was Klinische Darstellung der Krankheiten und Bildungsfehler des menschlichen Auges, a monograph acclaimed for its comprehensive treatment of eye disease, as well as for its superb hand-colored illustrations and its descriptions of congenital eye anomalies.One of Ammon's earlier works was an impartial comparative study between French and German surgery titled Vergleich zwischen französischer und deutscher Chirurgie (1823).
- In 1842 he co-authored a significant book on plastic surgery, Die plastische Chirurgie.
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