title: [Karl Alfons Portele, Pathologist and first director of the Federal Pathologic-anatomical Museum Vienna].
abstract: The importance of the work of Karl Alfons Portele (1912-1993) in his position as director of the Federal Museum of Pathology is discussed. Portele was commissioned with the museum in 1946 and separated it from university in 1974. The history of the Pathologic-anatomical Museum in Vienna is closely connected with the history of pathology.
authors.affiliation: Pathologisch-anatomische Sammlung im Wiener Narrenturm des Naturhistorischen Museum in Wien, Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien, Österreich. beatrix.patzak@nhm-wien.ac.at
authors.forename: Beatrix
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Patzak
authors.forename: Eduard
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Winter
mesh_terms: D000715:Anatomy / Q000266:history*; D001317:Austria; D049673:History, 20th Century; D009144:Museums / Q000266:history*; D010336:Pathology / Q000266:history*; D008486:Physician Executives / Q000266:history*; D013048:Specimen Handling / Q000266:history*