Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria

Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria, was a member of the House of Wittelsbach who worked as a professional oculist, born at Possenhofen Castle on 9 August 1839 and died on 30 November 1909. He served in the Bavarian Army and fought in the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War, then studied philosophy, law, economics and medicine at Munich, took his medical degree in 1873, and learned ophthalmology under Professor Deutschland and later in Vienna and Zurich. He began practising in Menton in 1877, opened an eye clinic in his castle at Tegernsee in 1880, and in 1895 founded the Augenklinik Herzog Carl Theodor in Munich, which is still a respected eye clinic. Between 1895 and 1909 he personally performed more than 5,000 cataract operations. He was the brother of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and the father of Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians.