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Carl von Rokitansky
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Karl Rokitansky (Karel Rokytanský)
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Date, Country, and City of Birth
February 19, 1804, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Date, Country, and City of Death
July 23, 1878, Vienna, Austria
History of Life
Rokitansky (Fig. 1) was one of the towering figures in the history of pathological anatomy. He was born as Karl Rokitansky on the 19th of February 1804 in Königgrätz (today Hradec Králové, Bohemia, Czech Republic). He studied in Prague and Vienna and started his career in the morgue of the Allgemeine Krankenhaus in Vienna in 1827. Two years after his graduation in 1828, he became a paid assistant. In the following years, his “star rose on the skyline of medicine.”
Karl Freiherr von Rokitansky (1804–1878) as rector magnificus of the University of Vienna, a painting by Anton Einsle (1801–1871) (foto: private collection Sedivy; original painting: University Vienna)
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Sedivy, R. (2017). Von Rokitansky, Carl (1804–1878). In: van den Tweel, J.G. (eds) Pioneers in Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41995-4_587
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