Edmund Landolt

Edmund Landolt
Born	(1846-03-17)17 March 1846 Kirchberg, Switzerland
Died	Paris, France
Nationality	Swiss
Scientific career
Fields	Ophthalmology
Institutions	Institution Nationale des Jeunes Aveugles

Landolt, Edmund, (17 May 1846 - 9 May 1926) was an Swiss ophthalmologist stationed in Paris. Mostly know for a wide range of publications and his research in the field of ophthalmology.

First years

Edmund Landolt was born in Kirchberg, Switzerland, of a French mother, Rosina Baumgartner, and Swiss father, Rudolf Landolt.

He came to France during the war in 1871 with a Swiss ambulance hospital, and was present at the battles around Belfort, where he contracted enteric fever.

Study and work

Studied at University of Zurich where he got a Ph.D. in 1869 and was trough this time and later pupil of Knapp in Heidelberg, Ferdinan Arlt in Vienna, Von Graefe and Helmholtz in Berlin, Horner in Zürich, and Snellen and Donders in Utrecht.

Worked in physiological optics with, among others, Snellen and Donders.

After study and practice in Utrecht and Germany he established himself in Paris in 1874 where he became oculist to the Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles.

With Panas (1832-1903) and Poncet (1849-1913) he re-founded the Archives d'ophtalmologie in 1881 and co-directed the Laboratoire d’Ophtalmologie with Javal.

Landolt's eye clinic on the Rue Saint-André-des-Arts was world famous. Here he treated ,among others, Mary Cassatt, and gave her the diagnosis cataracts.

Special fields of work

Ocular muscles and their disorders. Pioneering the work in their study and treatment.

He discovered ‘Landolt’s bodies’ between the rods and cones of the outer nuclear layer of the retina, investigated the functions of the ocular muscles and devised a new advancement operation.

Infamous for his publication of Landolt_C.

Publications

English

• The introduction of the metrical system into ophthalmology, London : J. & A. Churchill, 1876. OCLC: 56373123
• The artificial eye, London : Trübner & Co., 1879. OCLC: 29693518
  • tr. Edgar Athelstane Browne
• A manual of examination of the eyes. A course of lectures delivered at the "Ećole pratique,", Philadelphia, D.G. Brinton, 1879. OCLC: 2394443
  • tr. Swan M Burnett
• A manual of examination of the eyes. A course of lectures delivered at the "École pratique,", Philadelphia, D.G. Brinton, 1879. OCLC: 14069016
  • Ed. 2.: London : Baillie`re, Tindall & Cox, 1879. OCLC: 14408212
• On myopia, London : Harrison and Sons, 1879. OCLC: 29693435
• On insufficiency of the power of convergence, [S.l. : [s.n.], 1886. OCLC: 29693375
• The refraction and accommodation of the eye and their anomalies, Edinburgh, Pentland, 1886. OCLC: 3057956
  • Ed. 2.: Phila., J.B. Lippincott Co., 1886. OCLC: 12013230
  • Refraction and accommodation of the eye and their anomalies, Edinburgh, Young J. Pentland, 1886. OCLC: 11626601
• Cataract-operation, in our time, [Chicago] : Ophthalmic Record, 1892. OCLC: 27659117
• Vade mecum of ophthalmological therapeutics, Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1898. OCLC: 9689831
  • and Gygax
• On ophthalmic surgery, being the Bowman lecture delivered on Wednesday, June 7, 1911., Lond. 1911. OCLC: 83292691
• Defective ocular movements and their diagnosis, London, Frowde, 1913. OCLC: 14798829
  • and Marc Landolt

French

• Le grossissement des images ophthalmoscopiques, Paris : Adrien Delahaye, 1874. OCLC: 16077174
• Sur les causes de l'amétropie, Paris, 1877. OCLC: 79211659
• Leçons sur le diagnostic des maladies des yeux : faite à l'Ecole pratique de la Faculté de médicine de Paris, pendant le semester d'été 1875, Paris : Aux Bureaux du Progrès Médical : Ve A. Delahaye, 1877. OCLC: 16867948
• L'œil artificiel, Paris : Octave Doin, 1878. OCLC: 65009615
• Manuel d'ophthalmoscopie., Paris, Doin, 1878. OCLC: 14863824
• Clinique des maladies des yeux. Compte rendu pour l'anneé 1878, Coulommiers : P. Brodard, 1879. OCLC: 53178656
• Traité complet d'ophthalmologie, Paris : V. Adrien Delahaye, 1880-1889. OCLC: 9766547
  • and Louis de Wecker
  • Ed. 2.: Paris, Lecrosnier et Babé, 1880-89. OCLC: 14860559
• Tableau synoptique des mouvements des yeux & de leurs anomalies, Paris : Martinet, [ca.1880] OCLC: 67734772
• Tableau synoptique des mouvements des yeux et de leurs anomalies, [S.l. : s.n., 188-?]. OCLC: 61653001
  • aa. Librairie médicale scientifique vigot frères,
• Notice biographique à la mémoire du Docteur C [Johann] F[riedrich] Horner, professeur d'ophthalmologie à l'Université de Zurich, Paris : [s.n.], 1887. OCLC: 81850385
  • and C Johann Friedrich Horner
• Notice biographique à la mémoire du Docteur T.F. Horner, professeur d'ophthalmologie à l'Université de Zurich, Paris, 1887. OCLC: 82939545
• Rapport sur la question du strabisme, preś. au VIIe Congreś international d'ophthalmologie à Heidelberg, Wiesbaden, 1888. OCLC: 67724682
• Opto-types simples. 2 circular disks, Paris : O. Doin, 1889. OCLC: 53178663
• F. C. Donders, Paris : Steinheil, 1889. OCLC: 69060626
• Un nouveau procédé d'opération dans le distichiasis, Paris, 1890. OCLC: 67724675
• Un nouveau cas d'achromatopsie totale, Paris : G. Steinheil, 1891. OCLC: 53178653
• H. de Helmholtz : esquisse biographique, [S.l. : s.n.], 1894. OCLC: 65101525
  • and H. de Helmholtz
• Précis de thérapeutique ophtalmologique, Paris, Masson, 1895. OCLC: 14808861
  • and Gygax
• Nouveaux objets-types pour la de\´{t}ermination de lacute visuelle, Paris : Doin, 1899. OCLC: 65087355
• Nouveau objets-types pour la détermination de l'acuité visuelle., Paris : O. Doin, 1899. OCLC: 53178619
• Souvenirs sur H.Snellen, Paris : Steinheil, 1908. OCLC: 67520817
• Diagnostic des troubles de la motilité oculaire, Paris, Masson, 1909. Ed. française par Marc Landolt OCLC: 14785955
• Examen des mouvements normaux & pathologiques des yeux, Paris, G. Steinheil, 1916. OCLC: 5856097

Family

Married Valerie Hübscher. Two sons; Dr. Fernand Landolt, laryngologist and Dr. Marc Landolt, ophthalmologist.

Curiosity

He is mentioned in Sherlock Holmes' book The Demon Device (Robert Saffron) p. 44.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spent time with him in Paris in relation to his study of ophthalmology in Vienna.

External Links

• Edmund Landolt in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.

• College of Optometrists Historical Books pp. 120, 143, 192 and 208.