Ophthalmologist
Ludwig Mautner was born in Prague. In 1890 he became the head of the Eye Department at the Viennese General Hospital and in 1894 was appointed manager of the Eye Clinic of Vienna. Unfortunately, in the same year, he passed away.
Dr. Mautner was the most important eye doctor in Vienna of his time, especially in the fields of ophthalmoscopy, the study of refraction and eye-muscles paralysis. He was also an outstanding surgen. He introduced sclerotomy in the treatment of glaucoma. Dr. Mautner’s textbook of ophthalmoscopy appeared in 1868, and his lectures about the optic failure of the eye were compiled and published in a book (1872-1876); his Farbenlehre (“Study of Colors”) was published in 1894, after his death. The Mautnerische Membran is named after him.