Pernkopf, Eduard, 1888-1955

LC control no.	n 79139329
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Personal name heading	Pernkopf, Eduard, 1888-1955 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Pernkopf, Eduard, 1888-1959
Birth date	1888-11-24
Death date	1955-04-17
Affiliation	Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Sturmabteilung Universität Wien
Found in	His Topographische anatomie des mensche lehrbuch und atlas ... 1937- His Atlas of topographical and applied human anatomy, c1989: CIP t.p. (Eduard Pernkopf) data sh. (1888-1959) Wikipedia, viewed June 14, 2021: (Eduard Pernkopf. Born November 11, 1888; died April 17 1955. Anatomy professor; member of the Sturmabteilung. In 1938, became dean of the Medical University of Vienna. "He required medical faculty to declare their ethnic lineage as either "Aryan" or "non-Aryan" and swear loyalty to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. He forwarded a list of those who refused the latter to the university administration, who dismissed them from their jobs. This amounted to 77 percent of the faculty, including three Nobel laureates. All of the Jewish faculty were removed this way, making Pernkopf the first Austrian medical school dean to do so." Advocated for Nazi racial hygiene theories; rector at the University of Vienna; Allied prisoner of war after feeling Austria following the surrender of Germany; continued working on atlas until death in 1955; final volumes compiled after death)