Alexander Kolisko
Kolisko Alexander ( born November 6, 1857 in Vienna, † February 23, 1918 ) was an Austrian pathologist and coroner.
Biography
Alexander Kolisko studied at the Vienna University of Medicine, he completed his studies in 1881 from a doctor of medicine. He then worked as an assistant at the pathological institute of the University of Vienna under Johann Kundrat under which he qualified in 1888. In 1892 he became an associate professor.
At least 1894 he became the Leopoldstädter Children's Hospital free of charge as a prosector available.
In 1898 he took over after Eduard Hofmann the chair of forensic medicine, but traded them in 1916 with Anton Weichselbaum against those of pathological medicine, becoming the fifth professor in Vienna.
Alexander Kolisko described the carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a symmetrical softening of the brain and, together with Carl Breuss he wrote 1904-1912 a book about Beck pathological forms.
His medical interest was the pathology of sudden death, the criminal aspects of the subject were irrelevant for him.
Alexander Kolisko had the dubious honor to preserve the corpse of Emperor Franz Joseph I on 23 November 1916, and also appears in the medical record on about it, today is one of the exhibits of the Pathological-Anatomical Museum in Vienna. It says: " protocol received on 23 November 1916 on the Conservierung the corpse of his Majesty the Emperor Franz Josef I of made in the presence of two co-signed physicians. The two large carotid arteries are exposed in the same needles are involved and then with formalin in concentriertem state to the head on the one hand, in the trunk on the other hand injected in the amount of 5 liters. Finally, the assembled neck wounds are sutured. "Signed the Protocol of coroners and pathologists Prof. Dr. Alexander Kolisko, the personal physician of the emperor Councilor Dr. Joseph Ritter von Kerzl and the then Board of the Second Medical University Hospital Prof. Dr. Norbert Ortner.
The councilor appointed Alexander Kolisko was with Amalie Kolisko, born Baroness von Eschenburg, a pianist, married and father of Eugene Kolisko.
On February 26, 1918 Alexander Kolisko was buried at the cemetery in a grave with Hietzinger grave right to use Cemetery duration. 1929 Koliskogasse in Vienna-Favoriten was named after him.
Works
- Alexander Kolisko and Emil Redlich: schemes for drawing of the brain findings, Leipzig and Vienna, Verlag Deuticke, 1895
- Alexander Kolisko: Contributions to the knowledge of osteo myelitis, Vienna, 1896
- Alexander Kolisko and Carl Breus: The pathological pool shapes, Leipzig, 1904