Emil Zuckerkandl

Emil Zuckerkandl (born 18 September 1849 in Győr, † May 28, 1910 in Vienna ) was an Austro- Hungarian anatomist and physical anthropologist. According to him, the Zuckerkandl organ and the Zuckerkandl 's fascia ( connective tissue of the kidney ) and the retrotrachealen thyroid proportions, Zuckerkandl'sche tubercle are named.

Life

Emil Zuckerkandl studied from 1867 at the University of Vienna, among others. Josef Škoda and in 1870 on the recommendation of his teacher Joseph Hyrtl prosector in the Athenaeum in Amsterdam. From 1873 he worked in Vienna as an assistant at the pathological institute under Carl von Rokitansky and demonstrator at Hyrtl. In 1874 he received his doctorate in Vienna for Dr. med. On 1 October 1874, Zuckerkandl assistant at anatomist Carl Langer, whereby he appropriated a large and soon generally accepted knowledge in his research, which is why he was appointed in 1880 without a post-doctoral associate professor of anatomy at the University of Vienna. At this time he had already published 58 scientific papers.

From 1882 he taught this subject at the University of Graz as professor, from 1888 then in Vienna, where he led the then modern Anatomical Institute of Vienna and after Langer's death took over the chair. On April 15, 1886 he married Berta, daughter of newspaper editor and studied physician Moriz Szeps. ( It was in the general public due to their activities as Berta Zuckerkandl known than her husband, and should outlive him by 35 years. )

Zuckerkandl was considered an excellent observer, who dealt with almost all the fields of anatomy and hosted his expertise primarily to clinical requirements. Among his most famous pupils was Julius Tandler, of the lectures took over from his weakened due to a heart condition teacher from 1907.

He was married to the writer and journalist Berta Zuckerkandl - Szeps and thus son of newspaper publisher Moritz Szeps; his brother Otto Zuckerkandl was also physicians in Vienna.

He is buried in an honorary grave dedicated to the Döblinger Cemetery (Group 11, Row G 2, number 11) in Vienna.

Awards

Works

• Crânien the Novara collection. In: Travel the Austrian frigate Novara around the Earth. Anthropological part. Gerold, Vienna 1875.

He became known for his research on skull Customer:

• On the morphology of the facial skeleton. Stuttgart 1877.
• Normal and Pathological Anatomy of the nasal cavity and its pneumatic trailer. Braumüller, Vienna 1882-1892.

The main work is considered to be multi-volume

• Atlas of topographical anatomy of man. Braumüller, Vienna 1890-1900.