Carl von Rokitansky
Czech anatomist, dermatologist and patologist (1804-1878) · Doctors · Died at 74
Baron Carl von Rokitansky was an Austrian physician, pathologist, humanist philosopher and liberal politician, founder of the Viennese School of Medicine of the 19th century.
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Carl von Rokitansky as rector of Vienna University
Rokitansky's arms as baron, granted in 1874
Memorial plaque to Carl von Rokitansky in Hradec Králové
Rokitansky (age 49) and his Vienna colleagues (1853). He is the third man from the right in the bottom row, holding a book and looking left to his right.Awards
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He was the founder of science-based diagnostics, connecting clinical with pathological results in a feedback loop that is standard practice today but was daring in Rokitansky's day.
