Carl Ferdinand von Arlt


Carl Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt was an Austrian ophthalmologist born in Ober-Graupen, a village near Teplitz in Bohemia.
He earned his doctorate in Prague in 1839, and later became a professor of ophthalmology in Prague and Vienna. His son Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt was also an ophthalmologist.
Arlt published a prodigious number of books and articles concerning diseases of the eye, and collaborated with Albrecht von Graefe and Franciscus Donders on the journal Archiv für Ophthalmologie. He was the first physician to provide proof that myopia is generally a consequence of excessive length of the sagittal axis of the eye.
Annually. he returned to his home town in order to treat people in its vicinity who were afflicted with eye diseases. Arlt died in Vienna on 7 March 1887.
The following eponyms are named after Arlt: