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24T66 Med.Uni.Wien: Freud, Semmelweis, Kowanz

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Medicine is a part of the original founding of the University of Vienna in 1365. Over 6 centuries later in 2004, the university’s Faculty of Medicine created a separate Medical University of Vienna (MU Wien). Established in 1784, the Vienna General Hospital (Wien AKH) became home to the medical school, a centre for medical research, as well as supplying and supporting vital care for the city’s residents. Today, the campus of MU Wien lies adjacent to the campus of Wien AKH.

Certified in medicine, Dr. Sigmund Freud taught students and carried out medical research, before escaping the clutches of the Nazis to London in 1938. Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis recognized and instituted strict hygiene practices in obstetrics for the first time in the late 19th-century. From the late 20th into the early 21st-century, Viennese artist Brigitte Kowanz created “light sculptures” as part of her interest and practice of an ongoing conversation between art and science.

At the Medical University of Vienna is this Sigmund Freud Memorial: sculpture by Oscar Neman in 1936, and inaugurated in 2018 on the 80th anniversary year of Freud’s escape to London. Behind is the building for the university’s rectorate.
Upon leaving, Freud never returned to Vienna.
Near the Freud memorial are these dedications to Ignaz Semmelweis.
2018 memorial on the 200th birthday of Semmelweis.
2018 memorial statue, by Hungarian artist Peter Raab Párkányi.
His hand and finger points to the act of washing hands, a simple but effective hygiene practice.
Inside the building for the university’s rectorate (BT88) is the Jugendstilhörsaal lecture hall.
“Exchange,” by Brigitte Kowanz, 2008. The letters “e-x” in “exchange” begin at the upper-left, continuing clockwise.
Medizinische Universität Wien – Medical University of Vienna

I made all photos above with an iPhone15 on 12 Jul 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.