Halban, Josef#
Halban, Josef, b. Vienna, Oct. 10, 1870, d. Vienna, April 23, 1937, gynaecologist; married to the singer Selma Kurz. From 1910 head of the Department of Gynaecology at the Vienna General Hospital; elevated to the nobility in 1917. "Halban's sign of pregnancy" is named after him. Achievements in the field of research on the inner secretion of the ovaries.
Works#
Topographie des weibl. Uterus, 1901 (mit J. Tandler); Biologie und Pathologie des Weibes, 8 vols., 1924-1929 (with L. Seitz); Die gynaekologische Operationslehre, 1932.