Julius von Michel

Julius von Michel (5 July 1843 – 29 September 1911) was a German ophthalmologist born in Frankenthal.

During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), he again served as a military doctor, and afterwards worked with Gustav Schwalbe (1844–1916) at Carl Ludwig's Physiological Institute in Leipzig.

In 1872 he earned his habilitation in Leipzig, and subsequently became an associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of Erlangen, where in 1874 he gained a full professorship.

In 1879 he was named successor to Robert von Welz at the ophthalmology clinic in Würzburg,[1] and later on, he was a replacement for Karl Ernst Theodor Schweigger at the University of Berlin (1900).

Michel is remembered for work involving tuberculosis of the eye,[2] and his pioneer research of central retinal vein occlusion.