Franz Daxecker


Franz Daxecker is an Austrian ophthalmologist and a historian of science.

Biography

Franz Daxecker was a typographer from 1959 to 1965. He attended the Bundesaufbau-Gymnasium in Horn from 1965 to 1970. He studied at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and received his doctorate in 1975. In 1985. he was habilitated and in 1993 appointed as the associate professor. He is the deputy director of the Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry at the Innsbruck Medical University since 1984, and was director between 2006 and 2007. He wrote ophthalmological publications with reference to the refraction with the laser, the calculation of intraocular lens, the influence of ultraviolet to the eye as well as the treatment of eye neoplasm.
Daxecker published extensively about the astronomer Christoph Scheiner but also Oswald von Wolkenstein, Christoph Grienberger, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Felice Fontana, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Ludwig Mauthner, Richard Seefelder, Kaspar Pischel, Friedrich von Herrenschwand, Burghard Breitner and Herbert Schober. Other documents relating to spectacles representations of the Middle Ages, the history of Innsbruck Medical University, and medicinal plants in the Middle Ages in ophthalmology. He also wrote contributions to encyclopedias.

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