Education
He studied medicine in Vienna and Landshut, and in 1809 became a physician in the Napoleonic Wars.
ophthalmologist university professor
He studied medicine in Vienna and Landshut, and in 1809 became a physician in the Napoleonic Wars.
He later returned to Vienna, where in 1812 he received his medical degree at the university. From 1825 until 1848, he was a professor of ophthalmology at the Josephinum (school for military surgeons) in Vienna. Friedrich Jäger von Jaxtthal was an influential physician and surgeon of ophthalmic medicine.
Two of his more famous students in Vienna were Frédéric Jules Sichel (1802–1868) and Albrecht von Graefe (1828-1870).
"Bartisch-Jaeger method": Historical eponym for surgical removal of the eyeball (bulbus oculi) for cancer of the eye. Named with German physician, Georg Bartisch (1535-1607).
The procedure would later be improved upon by Italian ophthalmologist Francesco Flarer.