Karel Frederik Wenckebach

Karel Frederik Wenckebach ( born March 24, 1864 in The Hague, † November 11, 1940 in Vienna) was an internist.

Wenckebach was a professor at the University of Strasbourg and lived from 1915 to 1929 in Vienna. There he became one of the pioneers of Vienna Medical School and helped build the Vienna Institute for the History of Medicine in the buildings of the former Vienna Military Academy ( Josephinum ) with. Special, who did much to support the research of heart and circulatory problems.

According to him, the AV block II ° Type 1 named. The former military hospital in Berlin- Tempelhof was in 1951 renamed " Wenckebach Hospital ". 1962 in Vienna Dobling ( 19th district ) was named the Wenckebach alley after him.