150th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1954 - 1.50 Shilling

Karl Freiherr von Rokitansky was born on 19 February 1804 in Königgrätz as the son of an official. After attending the humanistic grammar school in Prague and studying medicine in Vienna, he entered the Vienna General Hospital's Prosektur then led by Professor Wagner. After Wagner's death, he took over the management of this position and received in 1834 the title of associate professor. Ten years later, when a pulpit for pathological anatomy was founded in Vienna on the model of the University of Strasbourg, Rokitansky was appointed full professor and director of this faculty. Rokitansky is considered the founder of the Second Viennese Medical School, which at that time drew students and doctors from all over the world to Vienna. In contrast to its predecessors, Rokitansky gave his medical specialty a new status. Because he assumed that due to recognizable gestaltlicher changes in the organs, which he could recognize the deceased, certain clinical images existed during life could be explained. This view confirmed countless of his research results. The pioneer of modern scientific considerations died on July 23, 1878.