Anton Steyrer

Anton Steyrer (born October 24, 1873 in Murau , Styria , † November 11, 1943 in Knittelfeld ) was an Austrian internist and university professor.

Life

Steyrer studied chemistry and medicine at the University of Vienna . In 1897 he became active in the Corps Alemannia Vienna . In Vienna he was awarded a Dr. phil. (1896) and Dr. med. (1898) PhD . He completed his specialist medical training with Bernhard Naunyn at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg and with Friedrich Kraus at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz . The Corps Vandalia Graz awarded him the ribbon in 1901. With Kraus he went to the Charité as a senior physician , where he completed his habilitation in 1907 . In 1909 he followed the call of the Royal University of Greifswald to its chair for internal medicine . Four years later he moved to the University of Innsbruck as full professor for special medical pathology and therapy . When Austria was annexed, he retired at the age of 70 for personal (not political or “racial”) reasons.

Günter Ewert, Ralf Ewert: Anton Steyrer , in: Ordinaries of Internal Medicine from 1864 to 1928 . Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86386-441-5 , pp. 36-38.

personal data
SURNAME	Steyrer, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian internist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 24, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Murau , Styria
DATE OF DEATH	November 11, 1943
Place of death	Knittelfeld , Styria