Gustav Alexander

Gustav Alexander was an Austrian otolaryngologist, born in 1873 and died on 12 April 1932, who is remembered for describing Alexander's law, a finding that carries his name in the study of the ear. From 1917 until his death he directed the Department of Otology of the Wiener Allgemeine Poliklinik in Vienna. He was the father of Leo Alexander. His death was violent: he was assassinated on the street between his home and the Poliklinik by Johann Soukop, a Czechoslovak former patient who had already tried to assassinate him twenty-two years earlier. The source lead gives only these outlines of his training and work, so this entry records his specialty, his post at the Poliklinik, his eponymous law and the manner of his death without going further than the source.