Hans Bankl

Hans Bankl (born April 9, 1940 in St. Pölten ; † December 11, 2004 in Vienna ) was an Austrian professor of pathological anatomy and prosector .

Life

In addition to his pathology textbooks, he was best known for his popular science works , in which he examined the biographies and deaths of well-known personalities, including Pope John Paul I , and brought up so many conspiracy theories . Bankl was a committed Freemason . Among other things, he was head of the Institute for Clinical Pathology at the St. Pölten State Hospital . According to an article in the daily newspaper "Kurier", Hans Bankl died of lung cancer .

honors and awards

• 1971: Cardinal Innitzer Promotion Prize for Human and Veterinary Medicine
• 2003: Jakob Prandtauer Prize for Science and Art from the City of St. Pölten

Works

Popular science

• Many Roads Lead to Eternity (1990), ISBN 3-85175-512-X
• The rest is not silence (1992), ISBN 3-85175-578-2
• Under the Sign of Aesculapia (together with F. Stöckl) (1993)
• The sick Habsburgs (1998), ISBN 3-442-15360-3
• What They Really Died Of (1999), ISBN 3-85175-814-5
• The knife is in the back (2003), ISBN 3-442-15203-8
• The Pathologist Knows Everything ... But Too Late (2003), ISBN 3-218-00638-4
• How often did Pharaoh swear? (2003), ISBN 3-902406-06-2
• Columbus didn't just bring the tomatoes (2004), ISBN 3-442-15292-5
• Messer, Kugel, Schlinge, Poison (2006), ISBN 3-902406-31-3
• Open due to death (2007), ISBN 978-3-902406-46-0
• The pathologist knows everything ... but too late (1997), ISBN 3-218-00638-4 (with Gösel)

Textbooks

• Pathology. Textbook for nursing schools and medical-technical assistant professions (1995), ISBN 3-85076-464-8
• Pathological-Morphological Diagnostics (1999), ISBN 3-540-64037-1
• Workbook Pathology, Vol. 1, Introduction to Pathology. Pathological-anatomical internship (2001), ISBN 3-85076-403-6
• Arbeitsbuch Pathologie, Vol. 2, Allgemeine Pathologie (2002), ISBN 3-85076-492-3
• Workbook Pathology, Vol. 3, Special Pathology (2002), ISBN 3-85076-536-9
• General Pathology (2003), ISBN 3-85076-562-8
• Hygiene and Infection Doctrine (2004), ISBN 3-85076-657-8

literature

• Christa Bankl (ed.): Hans Bankl: Mozart and his brothers. Profound stories of Freemasonry, with a Masonic diary by Hans Bankl. Seifert Verlag 2009.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Bankl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Hans Bankl in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )