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Otto Hochstädt (Hochstadt)

Born: 08-03-1902
Faculty: Medical School | Medical University Vienna
Category: Expelled teacher
Otto HOCHSTÄDT (born on August 3rd, 1902 in Gloggnitz, Lower austria, died  in 2983 in the USA) was a "Demonstrator" at the department of physiology (head: Durig) at the Medical School of the University of Vienna in 1938.

He was persecuted in times of Nazism for racist reason as a Jew
He lost his position in 1938 and was forced to leave the university. He had to flee from Austria and could emigrate to Boston/USA.


more detailled biography only in >>> German - to be translated soon

 

Lit.: Vienna University Archive/Medical School; information from Dr. Barbara Sauer Vienna 10/2018; REITER-ZATLOUKAL/SAUER 2022; http://www.neco.edu/news/entry/2015-scholarship-ceremony;https://archive.org/stream/massachusettscol1968mass3/massachusettscol1968mass3_djvu.txt.
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Herbert Posch


Otto Hochstadt

Otto Hochstadt
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