Julius Kratter
Julius Kratter (born April 6, 1848 in Deutschlandsberg ; † May 19, 1926 in Graz ) was an Austrian university professor of forensic medicine and rector of the University of Graz .
Life
Kratter attended high school in Marburg and Graz. He finished his medical studies in Graz with a doctorate in 1874. First he worked for a year as an assistant at the pathological institute, then at the institute for state medicine of Prof. Schauenstein. In 1880 he completed his habilitation in Graz for public health care. In 1887 he took over the professorship for state medicine from Prof. Hoffmann in Innsbruck. He kept it until 1892. In Innsbruck he founded the forensic medicine institute. In 1892 he returned to the University of Graz to take over the forensic medicine institute, which was still small and insignificant at the time. He was able to remedy the lack of sufficient corpses for demonstration and autopsy by assigning all suicides in Graz and the surrounding area to his institute. After the institute's premises in the Stöckle building became too small, he achieved an extension in 1895 and in 1899 he moved to the modern, new university building. In 1904 he was a co-founder of the German Society for Forensic Medicine . From 1909 to 1910 he was rector of the University of Graz.
Kratter was married to Marie Geutebrück since 1886.
research
His research dealt very intensively with death from electricity, about which he wrote the first strictly scientific treatise ever. Another field of research was the threat and damage to health from electrical radiation.
Memberships
In 1868 Kratter co-founded the Graz academic fraternity Arminia and a member of the Vienna academic fraternity Albia and the Prague fraternity Teutonia .
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 158-159.
- International Journal of Legal Medicine . Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg, Volume 8, Number 1, December 1926
- Kratter Julius. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 217 f. (Direct links on p. 217 , p. 218 ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Julius Kratter in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kratter, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian forensic doctor and rector of the University of Graz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 6, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Deutschlandsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1926 |
| Place of death | Graz |