Anton von Frisch (16 February 1849 – 24 May 1917), full name Anton

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von Frisch, was an Austrian

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. Frisch was born in

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. He studied at the

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, afterwards returning to Vienna, where he served as a demonstrator under

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(1810–1894) and as an assistant to

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(1829–1894). In 1874 he became a professor at the

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. In 1899 he was appointed head of the department of urology at the Allgemeine Poliklinik Wien (General Polyclinic – Vienna). Through Frisch's efforts, urology became recognized as an independent subject at the medical faculty in Vienna. In 1882 he first identified '' Klebsiella rhinoscleromatis'', an organism that is the cause of rhinoscleroma.Medscape, Emedicine
Rhinoscleroma With urologist Otto Zuckerkandl (1861–1921), he was co-author of the three volume '' Handbuch der Urologie'' (1904–06). Frisch married Marie Exner (1844-1925), the sister of physiologist

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(1846-1926).

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Karl von Frisch Karl Ritter von Frisch, (20 November 1886 – 12 June 1982) was a German-Austrian ethologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973, along with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz. His work centered on investigations o ...

(1886-1982) was his son.

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Anton Ritter von Frisch (1849-1917): life and work of the first President of the German Society of Urology
National Center for Biotechnology Information * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Frisch, Anton von Physicians from Vienna Academic staff of the University of Vienna 1849 births 1917 deaths Austro-Hungarian physicians Austrian knights