!!!Schönbauer, Leopold

Schoenbauer, Leopold, b. Thaya (Lower Austria), Nov. 13, 1888, 
d. Vienna, Sept. 11, 1963. Surgeon, cancerologist, founder of 
neurosurgery in Austria; 1931 head of the Institute of Radiotherapy in 
Vienna, together with J.  Tandler and K. Honey founded the first 
cancer advice centre in Vienna; 1933-1961 university professor 
(1953/54 rector), 1945-1961 director of the General Hospital in Vienna 
and temporary head of the Institute of the History of Medicine, whose 
journal "Beitraege" he edited from 1948. 1959-1962 Member of the 
Nationalrat (Austrian People´s Party, OeVP). Took part in the 
planning of the new Vienna General Hospital with H.  Hoff and K.  
Fellinger.

!Works
Hirnchirurgie, 1933 (with H. Hoff); Das medizinische Wien, 
1944; Die Bedeutung der oesterreichischen Chirurgie, 1948; Lehrbuch 
der Chirurgie, 2 vols., 1950; Gesuender leben, laenger leben, 
1954; Das oesterreichische Spital, 1959.

!Literature
NOeB.



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