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.

Awards and honors

Selected publications

125 Jahre Universitäts-Augenklinik in Innsbruck 1869–1994: Ihre Vorstände . Wagner, Innsbruck 1994,.
  • "Representations of eyeglasses on Gothic winged altars in Austria". In: Documenta Ophthalmologica, 93, 169-188 Das Hauptwerk des Astronomen P. Christoph Scheiner SJ Rosa Ursina sive Sol: eine Zusammenfassung The Physicist and Astronomer Christoph Scheiner: Biography, Letters, Works. Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Innsbruck 2004,.Briefe des Naturwissenschaftlers Christoph Scheiner SJ an Erzherzog Leopold V. von Österreich-Tirol 1620–1632 . Publikationsstelle der Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck 1995,.
  • "Christoph Scheiner's Main Work "Rosa Ursina sive Sol". In: Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Mathematica et Physica 46, Suppl., 27-140
  • "Christoph Scheiner's Eye Studies". In: Documenta Ophthalmologica 81:27-35
  • "Further studies of Christoph Scheiner's concerning the optics of the eye". In: Documenta ophthalmologica 86, 153 - 161.
  • with Lav Subaric: Christoph Scheiners "Sol ellipticus". Leopold-Franzens-Universität, Innsbruck 1998,
  • "Heilpflanzen der Augenheilkunde im Wiener Dioskurides". In: Klin Mbl Augenheilk 224, 611-612.
  • "Heilpflanzen der Augenheilkunde in der Dioskurides-Übersetzung des Pietro Andrea Matthioli". In: Julius-Hirschberg-Gesellschaft zur Geschichte der Augenheilkunde, Bd. 11, Verlag Königshausen & Neumann 2009, 343–355,.
  • "Christoph Scheiner and the Physiological Optics of the Eye". In: Klin Mbl Augenheilk 231, 1034-1036.
  • "Christopher Scheiner Physicist and Astronomer". In: Historia Ophthalmologica Internationalis, Tomus I, Fasciculus 1, Martius 2015, S. 91-18, http://histoph.com/daxecker-scheiner
  • "Leonardo da Vinci und the Vision". In: Klin Mbl Augenheilk 230, 736-737
  • "A retrospective chronobiological study of sunspot cycles by Christoph Scheiner". In: Acta Historica Astronomiae 64, 351-356.
  • "'Magnitudine, claritate & amplitudine incredibili'. Der Bau des Keplerschen Fernrohres durch Christoph Scheiner". In: Acta Historica Astronomiae'', Vol 66, Beiträge zur Astronomiegeschichte, Vol 14, 65–72.