Historical Research
In 2020, the Division of Anatomy launched a historical research group to explore and present its long, traditional and eventful history. Making use of the latest historical findings and modern methods, the group focuses on the following topics:
- Full professors of Anatomy
From the early 18th century to the presence
- Anatomical teaching practice and its materiality
From the 18th century to the presence
- Body acquisition and dissection
From the 18th century to the presence
- Viennese Anatomists in their international context
Circulation of anatomic knowledge in the 19th & 20th centuries
- Anatomical books and specimens
- History of the (medical) anthropological research at the Institute of Anatomy
- History of visual tools in anatomical teaching
Publications on our history
Czech, H., Druml, C., Weninger, W. J. & Müller, M.; What Should Be Done with Pernkopf's Anatomical Illustrations? A Commentary from the Medical University of Vienna (2021) DOI: 10.5210/jbc.v45i1.10820
Bauer, S., Schaukal, L. & Weninger, W. J.; The influence of censorship laws on Viennese anatomy textbooks from the outgoing 18th century until after the student revolution of 1848 in Austrian absolutism (2023) DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2023.152129
Schaukal, L., Bauer, S.; Tierpräparate bei Ferdinand Hochstetter – Artefakte einer vergangenen Wissenschaftspraxis (2024-25) DOI: 10.1553/virus23s89
Schaukal, L. et al.; Early-career anatomical networks: Lviv professor of anatomy Henryk Kadyi as a Habsburg case study (2025) DOI: 10.1016/j.aanat.2025.152734
Bauer, S., Schaukal, L. & Weninger, W. J.; The Viennese dissection course-A model for Habsburg medical teaching (1787-1848) (2025) DOI: 10.1007/s00508-024-02433-2
Schaukal, L., Bauer, S.; Die Leichenbücher des Wiener Anatomischen Instituts (1924–1959): Ein Fundstück und sein Wert als Quelle am Beispiel von neun Justifizierten in der Zweiten Republik (2026) DOI: 10.1007/s00048-026-00440-0
Completed projects
OeAD (WTZ-Grant) - UA 2023/01 „Henryk Kadyi and the Anatomical departments of the Universities of Vienna, Cracow, Prague and Lviv – A case study in shared European scientific networks“; (06/2023- 05/2025). Kooperation mit der Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University (Lviv, Ukraine).