Abstract

FR.22.04

Appreciation of the first and the last kur-saxony court oculists: Georg Bartisch (1535 – 1607) and Joannis Virgilius Casaamata (1741 – 1807)

Jähne M.
Eye Clinic, HELIOS Klinikum Aue

Dresden, the capital of Saxony, has the most important history in ophthalmology in Germany. We celebrate the fourth centenary of the death of the first und the biantenary of the death of the last court oculist in 2007. The oculist, surgeon and stone cutter Georg Bartisch, born in Königsbrück near Dresden in 1535, died in Dresden in 1607. He originated from a simple surgeon position and represents the first author of a textbook of ophthal- mology in German language: “Ophthalmoduleia – This is eye service”, which was published in Dresden in 1583 and received a second edition 100 years later. It is a masterpiece of book printing in renaissance with about 600 folio pages and 88 large woodcuts. The life of Bartisch was characterized by his opus magnum with striving for knowledge and to improve the professional qualification and to increase the occupational reputation of the surgeons in that time; with a sharp demarcation to quackery. Joannis Virgilius Casaamata was born in Italy in 1741, married and settled in Dresden too, was the last oculist on the court of Saxony. The history of ophthalmology reports, Casaamata himself was the first oculist, who tried an intraocular correction of aphakia with a lens made of glass in Dresden in 1795/1796. R. A. Schiferli has given a contemporary report about this procedure in his dissertation in 1797.

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