Maximilian Salzmann
| Born | 1862 |
| Died | 1954 |
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Biography of Maximilian Salzmann
Maximilian Salzmann graduated doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1887 and a year later became an assistant to professor Ernst Fuchs (1851-1930). He received the Venia legendi for eye medicine at Vienna in 1895, becoming ausserordentlicher professor in 1906. In 1911 he was appointed professor at Graz, where he remained. He was dean of the medical faculty 1918/1919.
Salzmann wrote a classical book on the anatomy and histology of the eye and made many original observations and measurements of angles of the anterior chamber. He was an excellent painter and illustrated much of his work. Later in life retinal degeneration due to myopia caused considerable visual loss which he described in his last paper.
Salzmann occasioned the publication of the 13th to 15th editions of Ernst Fuchs’ Lehrbuch der Augenheilkunde, Vienna and Leipzig, 1921-1926.
