Alexander Kolisko

The professors at the Medical University of Vienna, chalk drawing by Olga Prager, Vienna 1908–1910. In the Dean's Office of the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna. Edmund von Neusser , Siegmund Exner-Ewarten , Isidor Schnabel , Ferdinand Hochstetter , Alfons Edler von Rosthorn , Anton Weichselbaum , Leopold Schrötter von Kristelli , Heinrich Obersteiner , Julius Wagner-Jauregg , Viktor von Ebner-Rofenstein , Carl Toldt , Gustav Riehl , Ottokar von Chiari , Anton von Frisch , Ernst Fuchs , Anton Freiherr von Eiselberg , Hans Horst Meyer , Ernst Ludwig , Rudolf Chrobak , Theodor Escherich , Alexander Kolisko, Julius von Hochenegg , Arthur Schattenfroh , Carl von Noorden , Emil Zuckerkandl , Richard Paltauf , Gustav Gärtner , Leopold Oser , Josef Moeller , Alois Monti , Julius Mauthner , Viktor Urbantschitsch , August Leopold von Reuss , Adolf von Strümpell , Ernest Finger , Adolf Lorenz , Friedrich Schauta

Alexander Kolisko (born November 6, 1857 in Vienna ; † February 23, 1918 there ) was an Austrian pathologist and forensic pathologist .

biography

Alexander Kolisko studied medicine at the University of Vienna , graduating in 1881 with a doctorate in medicine . He then worked as an assistant at the pathological-anatomical institute of the University of Vienna under Johann Kundrat , under whom he completed his habilitation in 1888. In 1892 he became an associate professor.

At least in 1894 he was available free of charge as a prosector at the Leopoldstadt Children's Hospital.

In 1898 he took over the chair for forensic medicine after Eduard Hofmann, but in 1916 swapped it with Anton Weichselbaum for that of pathological medicine and thus became the fifth full professor in Vienna.

Alexander Kolisko described the symmetrical softening of the brain caused by carbon monoxide poisoning and together with Carl Breuss he wrote a book about pathological pelvic shapes between 1904 and 1912.

His medical interest was in the pathology of sudden death, the criminalistic aspects of the subject were secondary to him.

Emperor Franz Joseph I on his death bed

Alexander Kolisko had the dubious honor on November 23, 1916 the body of Emperor Franz Joseph I to preserve and also appears in the medical record about it on that day to the exhibits of anatomical Pathology Museum Vienna belongs. It says: “Protocol recorded on November 23, 1916 about the conservation of the corpse of His Majesty the Emperor Franz Josef I from the finished one in the presence of the two co-signed doctors. The two large carotid arteries are exposed, cannulas are tied into them and then injected with formalin in a concentrated state into the head on the one hand and into the trunk on the other hand in an amount of 5 liters. Finally, the throat wounds are sutured. ” The protocol is signed by forensic physician and pathologist Alexander Kolisko, Emperor Joseph Ritter von Kerzl's personal physician and Norbert Ortner, the then director of the II Medical University Clinic .

Grave of Alexander Kolisko in the Hietzinger Friedhof

Alexander Kolisko, who was appointed Hofrat , was married to Amalie Kolisko, born Freiin von Eschenburg, a pianist, and the father of Eugen Kolisko .

Alexander Kolisko was buried in the Hietzingen cemetery in an honorary grave (group 16, number 59).

In 1929 the Koliskogasse in Vienna- Favoriten was named after him.

Works

with Emil Redlich: Schemas for drawing in brain findings. Publishing house Deuticke, Leipzig / Vienna 1895.
Contributions to the knowledge of osteo myelitis. Vienna 1896.
with Carl Breus : The pathological pelvic forms. Leipzig 1904

literature

Kolisko Alexander. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 83.
Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 .
Helmut Wyklicky: Kolisko, Alexander. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 461 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Alexander Kolisko - collection of images, videos and audio files

Alexander Kolisko in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Footnotes

^ The faculty of the medical faculty of the University of Vienna, Vienna 1908-1910 . Photo credits: Collections of the Medical University of Vienna - Josephinum, picture archive; Associated personal identification .
↑ Franz Ullmann: Chronological description of the establishment and development of the St. Annen, St. Joseph, Leopoldstädter, Crown Prince Rudolf and Karolinen Children's Hospital in Vienna and the relationship between these institutions and the Vienna kk hospital fund. W. Braumüller, Vienna 1896.
↑ Martin Grassberger: 200 Years of the Vienna Chair of Forensic Medicine ( Memento from December 19, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Vienna , 2005.
↑ springermedizin.at ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
↑ ^a ^b When the dead should live longer ( Memento from February 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Report on www.springermedizin.at , March 28, 2007 (accessed on September 7, 2012)

personal data
SURNAME	Kolisko, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian pathologist and coroner
DATE OF BIRTH	November 6, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	February 23, 1918
Place of death	Vienna

[1] The faculty of the medical faculty of the University of Vienna, Vienna 1908-1910 . Photo credits: Collections of the Medical University of Vienna - Josephinum, picture archive; Associated personal identification .

[2] Franz Ullmann: Chronological description of the establishment and development of the St. Annen, St. Joseph, Leopoldstädter, Crown Prince Rudolf and Karolinen Children's Hospital in Vienna and the relationship between these institutions and the Vienna kk hospital fund. W. Braumüller, Vienna 1896.

[3] Martin Grassberger: 200 Years of the Vienna Chair of Forensic Medicine ( Memento from December 19, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Vienna , 2005.

[4] springermedizin.at ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

[springermedizin-5] When the dead should live longer ( Memento from February 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Report on www.springermedizin.at , March 28, 2007 (accessed on September 7, 2012)