Emil Zuckerkandl

Emil Zuckerkandl (1849 to 1910) was an anatomist of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, born in Gyor in Hungary into a Jewish family and trained at the University of Vienna, where he took his medical degree in 1874. He taught at Utrecht, then at Vienna and Graz, and from 1888 held a professorship of descriptive and topographical anatomy at Vienna, where he led the first chair of anatomy. His research reached across nearly all of morphology, with notable work on the nasal cavity and its sinuses, the bones of the face, blood vessels, the brain and the chromaffin system. Several structures carry his name, among them the fascia, tubercle and bodies of Zuckerkandl. He wrote a long series of atlases and monographs on topographical and descriptive anatomy and on operative surgery. He married the writer Berta Szeps, and their home was a gathering place for artists and scientists of Vienna. He hired the first woman university assistant in the empire, and he died in Vienna in 1910.