Karl Alfons Portele

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Karl Alfons Portele (from 1917 to 1919 Karl Alfons von Portele , born February 13, 1912 , † September 24, 1993 ) was an Austrian pathologist.

Life

Karl Alfons von Portele came from a family of Austrian officials. His father was the oenologist Karl von Portele , who was ennobled in 1917 .

In his youth, Portele was a wrestler and reporter . He studied medicine at the University of Vienna and joined the KHV Welfia Klosterneuburg in the ÖCV in 1937. As a monarchist , Portele belonged to the resistance group around Wilhelm von Hebra after the “Anschluss” of Austria . On April 18, 1939, he was arrested by the Secret State Police in Austria . He was sentenced to death. The death sentence was postponed several times, mostly on the pretext of tuberculosis who had been drawn into custody . Sentenced to prison, declared unworthy of defense and banned from studying medicine, he spent the years 1939 to 1943 in prison. In the Gestapo custody in Regensburg he became a member of the (legitimist) corps of the Ottonians. He remained connected to him throughout his life and founded the colorful men's association Lutetia Parisiorum in his memory . After his detention was unexpectedly lifted, he returned to Vienna in 1944. He finished his medical studies in 1946.

In the same year he joined the Pathological Institute at the University of Vienna as an assistant, which at that time was under the direction of Hermann Chiari . Portele devoted himself mainly to bacteriology . Most of all he dealt with leptospirosis . From 1946 to 1965 he headed the investigation center for leptospira for Austria and for Lower Austria and Vienna. The focus of his interest was the leptospira infestation of Viennese sewer rats, especially with regard to its risk for the workers in sewer cleaning . Almost all Viennese sewer workers knew him and visited him in full work clothes in the General Hospital of the City of Vienna . For study visits he was at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, the Bacteriological Institute in St. Gallen and the National Institute for Health in Rome

In 1947, Portele was commissioned by Chiari to look after the pathological-anatomical museum in addition to the routine work. The relationship between the two pathologists was strained. Mutual disdain turned into open enmity. The new appointment to the chair in 1969 gave the museum a boost. The new professor, Johann Heinrich Holzner, valued Portele as a person and appreciated the value of the unique collection. He supported Portele's idea of ​​separating the museum from the Pathological Institute spatially and administratively and to equip it with its own budget. In 1974, in lengthy negotiations with Hertha Firnberg , Portele succeeded in persuading the federal government to take over the collection. The Federal Pathological-Anatomical Museum was housed in the Narrenturm . Portele acted as director until his death. In competition with the medical-technical services , he initiated the training of (female) graduated medical-technical specialists (biomedical analyst). The law was passed in 1961.

He also became a member of the Free Corps Austro-Germania . He founded the Association of Friends of the Pathological-Anatomical Museums in Austria , and remained its president until his death. He was buried in the Dornbacher Friedhof .

Acquired collections

By taking over many collections, Portele made the Federal Museum the world's largest collection of specimens with 25,000 wet specimens .

collection Facility
Leopold doctor and Wilhelm Kerl
Gerhard Alth Radiation therapy from Lainz Hospital
Hans Asperger General Hospital of the City of Vienna Children's Clinic
Heinz Flamm Hygiene Institute
Hugo Husslein General Hospital of the City of Vienna II. Women's Clinic
Rudolf Langer Mistelbach ENT Hospital
Karl Lebeda Institute for Veterinary Examinations Mödling
Rudolf Niederhuemer Technical Museum Vienna
Otto Novotny General Hospital of the City of Vienna ENT
Franz Pötsch BA for Vaccine Production Vienna
Josef Söltz-Szöts Rudolf Foundation Dermatology
Peter Wurnig Mautner Markhof Children's Hospital Surgery
Collection of the anatomical institute Vienna
Henning family
Wieden Collection
Rudolf Foundation Collection
Collection Wilhelminenspital
Lainz Collection
Collection Graz
Bonn Collection
Wuppertal Collection
Hamburg Collection
Innsbruck Collection
Collection of St. Elisabeth Hospital Vienna
Collection of Kaiser Franz Josef Spital
UFK Meidling collection
Collection of the Semmelweis Women's Clinic
House of Nature Salzburg
Collection of the Baumgartner Höhe Otto Wagner Hospital
Collection of Municipal Department 60 - Veterinary Services and Animal Welfare
Kincel Collection

Honors

literature

  • J. Heinrich Holzner: Karl Alfons von Portele . Negotiations of the German Society for Pathology 79 (1995), pp. 688-690.
  • Beatrix Patzak, Eduard Winter: Karl Alfons Portele, pathologist and first director of the Federal Pathological-Anatomical Museum in Vienna . Wiener Medical Wochenschrift 163 (2013), pp. 322–326, doi: 10.1007 / s10354-013-0210-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portele was not a member of the Academic Corps Ottonen Vienna, which was founded a few years ago .
  2. ↑ a b 11,111 days Austro-Germania
  3. ↑ Professional association DMTF + MAB ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jdmtf.at
  4. ↑ IVU Mödling
personal data
SURNAME Portele, Karl Alfons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Portele, Karl Alfons von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1912
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1993