!!!Rokitansky, Carl Freiherr von

Rokitansky, Baron Carl von, b. Hradec Králove, Czech Republic, (then Koeniggraetz), Feb. 19, 1804, 
d. Vienna, July 23, 1878, physician, renowned pathologist. 1844 
professor at the University of Vienna, 1850-1878 president of the 
Society of Physicians, 1869-1878 president of the Academy of Sciences, 
1870 president of the Supreme Medical Council. Together with J. 
Škoda R. created a system of diseases, still valid today, based 
on the exact description of medical results, and a new language for 
pathologists. was the first to establish certain types of diseases and 
founded the objective branch of the  Vienna School of Medicine; 
established experimental pathology and pathological anatomy as 
independent fields of study. In contrast to R. Virchow he claimed that 
the blood was responsible for localized organic diseases as well as 
for systemic diseases (doctrine of crases and blastema).

!Works
Handbuch der patholog. Anatomie, 3 vols., 1842-1846; 
Lehrbuch der allg. Pathologie und patholog. Anatomie, 1855; Der 
selbstaendige Wert des Wissens, 1867.

!Literature
R. L. Heschl, Aus dem Leben R., 1900; E. Lesky, Die 
Wr. Medizin. Schule, %%sup 2/%1978; P. Wiench (ed.), Die grossen 
Aerzte, 1982.



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