Maria Teschler-Nicola (born Eggenburg, 24 October 1950) is an

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n human biologist,

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and

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. The

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is also called ''Teschler-Nicola syndrome'' after her.

Biography

Teschler-Nicola took her Matura exams in 1970, and studied human biology,

medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pract ...

and folkloristics at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

from 1971 to 1976, and graduated with a

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degree in human biology. From 1970 to 1972 she worked as a research fellow in the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Vienna, and afterwards until 1976 as contractual assistant professor at the Institute of Human Biology of the University of Vienna. In 1993 she got the

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for human biology. In 1997 she acted as interim department director, and since 1998 she has been director of the Department of Archaeological Biology and Anthropology of the

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. In 2000, she was appointed as extraordinary university professor by the Austrian president

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Awards

* "Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um das Land Wien" (Silver Order of Merit for Service to the federal state Vienna) * In 2014 she became a member of the

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founded ...

External links

Publications of Maria Teschler-Nicola
* Andre Trombeta

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Teschlernicola, Maria Austrian anthropologists 20th-century anthropologists 21st-century anthropologists Austrian women anthropologists Women ethnologists Austrian ethnologists Academic staff of the University of Vienna University of Vienna alumni Austrian curators People from Eggenburg 1950 births Living people Members of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina