Willy Vorkastner
Willy Vorkastner (born July 20, 1872 in Potsdam , † November 19, 1931 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German forensic doctor.
Life
As the son of a mayor, Vorkastner attended grammar schools in Potsdam and Goslar , where he graduated from high school in 1898. He studied medicine at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg and the Friedrichs University in Halle . In 1907 he became a corps bow bearer of the Pépinière-Corps Franconia. He volunteered in the University Clinics in Halle and at the Potsdam Municipal Hospital. In 1903 he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD . He then worked at the Psychiatric and Nervous Clinic of the University of Greifswald , after his habilitation in 1910 as a senior physician. Because of his varied work as an expert (especially »psychopathological conditions«), the University of Halle suggested him for the Extraordinariat for Forensic and Social Medicine, medical and criminal ancillary sciences and criminal anthropology . In 1922 Vorkastner accepted the call. In 1927 he moved to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main to the newly established, scheduled Extraordinariat for Forensic Medicine , auxiliary criminal sciences and social medicine . At the same time he worked as a prison doctor . In 1930 the Medical Faculty of the University of Halle named him primo loco for the vacant personal professorship for forensic medicine and natural scientific forensics because of his "partly groundbreaking ideas" . Vorkastner accepted the call. He died of a heart attack at the age of 59 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Willy Vorkastner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Willy Vorkastner in the state bibliography MV
- Entry on Willy Vorkastner in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ↑ Year of birth deviating: 1878 - so handwritten in an album of the professors of the Medical Faculty Frankfurt am Main and in the medical directory: Wilhelm Kallmorgen, Siebenhund Jahre Heilkunde in Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main 1936, p. 439.
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 66/429
- ↑ Dissertation: Contribution to the question of the operability of brain tumors
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vorkastner, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German forensic doctor and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Potsdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1931 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |