Wilhelm Falta

Wilhelm Falta (born May 6, 1875 in Karlsbad ; † July 15, 1950 in Obermarkersdorf ) was an Austrian physician (internist).

Life

Falta studied medicine in Prague and Strasbourg and received his doctorate in 1900 at the Charles University in Prague, where he was with Karl Hugo Huppert at the chair of physiology and medicinal chemistry. He then went on to do clinical training at the Medical Clinic at the Bürgerspital Basel with Friedrich von Müller and Wilhelm His , where he completed his habilitation in internal medicine in 1904 and became a private lecturer. He then worked at the First Medical University Clinic in Vienna with Carl von Noorden and Karel Frederik Wenckebach . In 1914 he became associate professor and in 1917 associate professor. From 1917 to 1944 he was the primary physician at the first medical department in the Empress Elisabeth Hospital. His well-developed laboratory there was destroyed in a bomb attack on February 21, 1945 and he evaded to the Am Steinhof hospital, where he was still active until 1947. He was a councilor.

His main area of ​​work was diabetes mellitus . He wrote the section Diseases of the Gland with Internal Secretion in the Handbook of Internal Medicine in the first and second editions (Volume 4).

He was co-editor of the Vienna Archive for Internal Medicine .

Fonts

• The diseases of the blood glands, Springer 1913
• Diabetes and Insulin, 1924

literature

• Falta, Wilhelm. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 287.

Web links

• Wilhelm Falta in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna