Wilhelm Auerswald

Wilhelm Auerswald (born May 11, 1917 in Vienna , † October 19, 1981 in Vienna) was an Austrian physiologist and university professor.

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Auerswald made in 1935 on Schottengymnasium the Matura and received his doctorate in 1940 after studying medicine at the University of Vienna .

From 1945 Auerswald took over the provisional management of the Physiological Institute after becoming an assistant in 1944. From 1958 he was associate professor and from 1968 full professor. At the same time he also became the head of the institute and thus successor to Gustav Schubert .

In 1970 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences . Ten years later he became dean of the medical faculty in Vienna.

In his scientific work he dealt with the physiology and pathology of blood protein bodies, nutrition, thrombosis, arteriosclerosis, aerospace and occupational physiology.

In addition to his activities at the university, he was also a member of the highest medical council. In the Society of Doctors in Vienna he was a librarian as well as president of the Austrian Physiological Society and the Austrian Society for Nutritional Research. He was Vice President of the American Medical Society of Vienna. His involvement in the development and manufacture of blood derivatives at the former company Immuno AG was also essential .

After he died on October 19, 1981 at his desk in the Physiological Institute, he was buried in the Grinzing cemetery .

Appreciation

The Society of Doctors in Vienna annually awards the Wilhelm Auerswald Prize for the best dissertation, later a doctoral thesis at an Austrian medical faculty.

literature

• Felix Czeike: Historical Lexicon Vienna

Web links

• Auerswald, Wilhelm in the Austria Forum
• CV (PDF; 42 kB)
• Literature by and about Wilhelm Auerswald in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wilhem-Auerswald Prize (PDF; 1.1 MB)