The Collegium Medico-Chirurgicum Josephinum or Josephinian Military Academy of Surgery (simply Josephinum for short) was an academy of military medicine founded in Vienna by Emperor Joseph II in 1784. [1] In 1874 its functions were transferred to other institutions, [1] and its building now houses the Josephinum Medical Museum of the Medical University of Vienna.
An image of the building featured on the 1987 issue of the 50 schilling note.
The first director of the Josephinum was the Italian surgeon Giovanni Alessandro Brambilla (1728–1800). [1]
The Medical University of Vienna is a public university located in Vienna, Austria. It is the direct successor to the faculty of medicine at the University of Vienna, founded in 1365 by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria. As one of the oldest medical schools in the world, it is the oldest in the German-speaking countries, and was the second medical faculty in the Holy Roman Empire, after the Charles University of Prague.
Academy of Medicine or Academy of Surgery may refer to:
Josephinum means house of Joseph and may refer to various buildings and institutions including:
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