Franz Josef Lang

Franz Josef Lang (born July 9, 1894 in Elbigenalp ; † October 7, 1975 ) was an Austrian pathologist and university professor.

Life

After graduating from high school in Brixen , Lang began studying medicine in Innsbruck , where he was a member of the Corps Rhaetia . He did his military service as a one-year volunteer in the 1st Regiment of the Tyrolean Kaiserjäger . He took part in World War I as an officer and returned from Galicia seriously wounded as a first lieutenant . He then continued his medical studies, which he completed in 1919 with a doctorate . He began with scientific work at the Pathological-Anatomical Institute of the University of Innsbruck and received the Venia legendi in 1922. After studying in Hamburg and Munich, he became a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York in 1925 and a student of Maximow at Columbia University . In 1927 he got a position as deputy head of the department for experimental cell research at the cancer institute of the Charité in Berlin. In 1928 he was appointed full professor for pathological anatomy and head of the pathological institute at the University of Innsbruck. He declined calls to Vienna, Halle (Saale) and the United States. In the academic years 1935/36 and 1937/38 to 1943 he was dean of the medical faculty.

literature

• German corps newspaper. Volume 76, 1975, p. 275

Web links

• Obituary (PDF)