Viktor Urbantschitsch

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Viktor Urbantschitsch (c. 1920)

Viktor Urbantschitsch (10 September 1847, in Vienna – 17 June 1921, in Vienna) was an Austrian

otologist
. He was the son of Alois Urbantschitsch and Wilhelmine.

He studied at the

Adam Politzer as head of the university ear hospital.[1]

He is considered to be one of the founders of modern otology. He focused his attention on the physiology and psycho-physiology of the ear, and researched the influence that head movements had on

sound perception.[1] He stressed the significance of residual hearing and developed various diagnostic and rehabilitative methods.[2] He was an early practitioner of electric current as a means of treatment,[3] and also introduced a manual massage technique for the Eustachian tube.[4]

Personal life

Viktor had four children with his wife, Caroline:

  1. Minna Wilhelmine Urbantschitsch (1873 – August 1943), married Pero Despic (1874 - April 1937), had one daughter.
  2. Richard Urbantschitsch (1875–1948), never married.
  3. Ernst Urbantschitsch (30 June 1877 – 1 July 1948), married Hildegard "Hilde" ... (d. 1954). Had one son, Victor Urbancic
  4. Rudolf von Urban (28 April 1879 – 18 December 1964), married Friederike "Fritzi" Rosali Persicaner (11 June 1879 – 10 April 1970), divorced. Had two children. Later married Maria Mayen (11 May 1892 – 15 July 1978) and had one daughter together. Rudolf and Maria were the maternal grandparents of Christoph Waltz

Selected works

  • Lehrbuch der Ohrenheilkunde, 1880.
  • Über subjektive optische Anschauungsbilder, 1907.
  • Über Störungen des Gedächtnisses infolge von Erkrankungen des Ohres, 1918.
  • "Auditory training for deaf mutism and acquired deafness". Washington, D.C. : Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, (1982). Translation of: Über Hörübungen bei Taubstummheit und bei Ertaubung im späteren Lebensalter, translated by S. Richard Silverman.[5]

References