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50th Anniversary of the Death of Julius Tandler
His research in anatomy earned Julius Tandler an important place in this medical field. Indeed his contributions to social welfare were even more significant, for with his Unified Welfare System Tandler helped establish the humanitarian principle of welfare in Vienna in the 1920s. Julius Tandler was born on February 16, 1869 in Iglau in the Margravate of Moravia. Tandler soon became acquainted with the suffering of his day as a youth growing up in Vienna. In 1910 he held Vienna University's first Chair of Anatomy and in the war years from 1914 until 1917 he was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. His appointment to under-secretary and head of the public health department followed on May 9, 1919. In 1920 Tandler changed over from the public health department to Vienna's city government, where as city councillor for health and welfare he worked with untiring energy for the expansion of welfare in the years that followed. He especially committed himself to the fight against tuberculosis, known as the "Viennese sickness". In the early 1930s Tandler also worked within the framework of the hygiene section of the League of Nations, the forerunner organization of the United Nations. In the course of the events of February 1934 Tandler was forced into retirement. He died on August 25, 1936.
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