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:
- Professors of Anatomy
- Practice of anatomical teaching and its materiality
- Body acquisition & dissection
- Anatomy in Vienna in its international context
- Anatomical teaching aids & specimens
- Anthropological research at the Institute of Anatomy
- Visual teaching aids in anatomy
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).