!!!Frisch, Anton von

Frisch, Anton von, b. Vienna, Feb. 16, 1849, 
d. Vienna, May 24, 1917, urologist. Studied rabies at the Pasteur 
Institute in Paris, worked as a demonstrator with J.  Hyrtl and was 
assistant to T.  Billroth. Became Professor of Anatomy at the Academy 
of Fine Arts and Professor at the University of Vienna in 1874, 1889 
head of the department of urology at the Poliklinik hospital. In 1882 
he discovered the bacillus causing rhinoscleroma and found out that 
ragsorter's disease and anthrax were one and the same disease. Thanks 
to his achievements, urology was recognized as an individual field of 
study at the Vienna Faculty of Medicine.

!Works
Handbuch der Urologie, 3 vols., 1904-1906 (together with O. 
Zuckerkandl).

!Literature
OeBL.



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