Anton von Rosas

Anton von Rosas was an Austrian ophthalmologist, born on 23 December 1791 in Pécs in Hungary and died on 31 May 1855. He studied medicine at the universities of Pest and Vienna and took his doctorate in 1814. He then became an assistant to Georg Joseph Beer at the University Eye Clinic in Vienna, and from 1819 to 1821 directed the ophthalmology clinic at the University of Padua. After Beer died in 1821, Rosas returned to Vienna as his successor and held the professorship of ophthalmology and the directorship of the eye clinic until 1853. He is credited with several improvements at the clinic, among them a year-round ambulatory service, and he wrote a three-volume textbook of theoretical and practical eye medicine, the Handbuch der theoretischen und practischen Augenheilkunde. A street in the Meidling district of Vienna, the Rosasgasse, is named in his honor.