Johann Ritter von Oppolzer (4 August 1808 – 16 April 1871) was an Austrian

Austrian Empire

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 physician

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 born in Nové Hrady

Nové Hrady (Ceské Budejovice District)

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, Bohemia

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. He was the father of the astronomer Theodor von Oppolzer

Theodor von Oppolzer

Theodor von Oppolzer was an Austrian astronomer and mathematician.The son of the physician Johann Ritter von Oppolzer, Theodor was born in Prague, at the time part of the Austrian Empire. He completed his graduate studies in medicine at the University of Vienna, gaining a Ph.D. in 1865...

 (1841–1886).

In 1835 he earned his medical doctorate at the University of Prague

Charles University in Prague

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, and later worked as a university professor at Prague

Prague

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 (from 1841), Leipzig

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 (from 1848) and Vienna

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 (from 1850), where he also served as rector

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 in 1860/61. In 1863, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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Oppolzer was an advocate of holistic diagnostics and therapy in his approach to medicine. He was also an important influence in the career of renowned otologist Adam Politzer

Ádám Politzer

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Selected writings

• Vorlesungen über spezielle Pathologie und Therapie, (Lectures on Special Pathology
  Pathology
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   and Therapy
  Therapy
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  ); 2 volumes, 1866/1872.

External Reference

• http://aeiou.iicm.tugraz.at/aeiou.encyclop.o/o468531.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en biography of Johann von Oppolzer @ AEIOU Encyclopedia
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• Pagel: Biographical Dictionary (translated biography)