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
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).