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Notes to Chapter 3 ♦  335 appointment of the young Austrian Hofmann would “have the most beneficial and animating impression for the Privatdozenten in Austria.” AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 1072, PA Karl Hofmann, Z. 10534, 16 August 1873. 159. See, for example, the explanations of Edmund Neusser for the appointment of Adolf Strümpell from Leipzig in AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 632, PA Strümpell, Z. 3913, 19 February 1909. 160. For an overview, see Hans-Heinz Eulner, Die Entwicklung der medizinischen Spezialfächer an den Universitäten des deutschen Sprachgebietes (Stuttgart: Enke, 1970). 161. Before 1880, there were nine habilitations for pediatric medicine. With three exceptions, those scholars made, however, no further progress at the universi- ties. In contrast, most scholars who habilitated in this subject after 1880 achieved professorial positions. 162. AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 633, PA Widerhofer, 25 April 1887. 163. On the forensic doctor Karl Ipsen, see AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 1073, PA Ipsen, Z. 12865, 18 June 1894; Z. 10128, 13 May 1896. On the astronomer Karl Weineck/Weinek László, see AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 1211, PA Weineck, Z. 12092, 10 July 1883. On Ferenc/Franz Tangl, see AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 1058, PA Tangl, Z. 32116, 21 September 1904. 164. Such cases included, among others, those of the hygienist Alois Lode (born in Orăștie/Szászváros/Broos, accredited to Most/Brüx in Bohemia), the internist Julius Mannaberg (Pest, Vienna), and the pathologist Arthur Biedl (Comloșu Mic/Kiskomlos/Ostern [Kleinkomlosch], accredited to Lower Austria). See the respective curricula vitae in AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 1056, PA Lode; AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 627, PA Mannaberg; and AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 620, PA Biedl. 165. AGAD, MWiO, Sygn. 122u, PA Zalewski, acts 1888–92, including an expert report by the Viennese biologist Anton Kerner. 166. AT-OeStA/AVA Unterricht UM allg. Akten 629, PA Gustav Paul, Z. 25592 (habil- itation record), esp. Z. 27.175 (ministry’s decision) from 1906. 167. See the habilitation of Władysław Kretkowski in mathematics (at first “with exclusion of infinitesimal calculus”) in AGAD, MWiO, Sygn. 119u, PA Kretkowski, Z. 409, 10 July 1881, and the letter of Emil Weyr from October 1881, in the same file; the issue of the precise designation of Kretkowski’s spe- cialization was also debated in the faculty. 168. “Verordnung des Ministers für K. u. U. vom 11. Februar 1888, Z. 2390, betreffend die Habilitierung der Privatdozenten an Universitäten,” reprinted in Mannagetta and Kelle, Die österreichischen Universitätsgesetze, 169, §2. 169. On social selection through habilitation, see also Susanne Preglau-Hämmerle, Die politische und soziale Funktion der österreichischen Universität: Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart (Innsbruck: Inn-Verlag, 1986), 99. 170. “Verordnung des Ministers für K. u. U. vom 11. Februar 1888, Z. 2390, betref- fend die Habilitierung der Privatdozenten an Universitäten,” §14.