page_title: Carl von Rokitansky
section_title: Political career
hierarchical_section_title: Carl von Rokitansky / Political career
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Wappen des Mediziners und Politikers Dr. Carl von Rokitansky (1804–1878), verliehen anlässlich seiner Erhebung in den österreichischen Freiherrenstand 1874. Zeichnung von Gerd Hruška (http://ghruska.weebly.com/). Für weitere Informationen zu dieser Standeserhebung siehe AustroAristo.com (http://www.austroaristo.com/)
context_page_description: Baron Carl von Rokitansky, was a Bohemian physician, pathologist, humanist philosopher and liberal politician.
context_section_description: By way of his leading positions in the most diverse academic and political institutions of the Austrian Empire, Rokitansky helped to shape the era of Austrian high liberalism.  He represented liberalism among the educated middle class and strove for "freedom and progress", both to the university reform and to the substantial improvement of health sciences.  Rokitansky was several times the dean of the medical school, and, in 1853, the first freely elected rector of the medical congregation of the University of Vienna and president of the Superior Medical Council.  From 1850 until his death, he also presided the Physician's Society of Vienna. On 25 November 1867 he was "unexpectedly and unprepared" nominated by Franz Joseph I to the upper house of the Royal Council (German: Reichsrath) in recognition of his public service. Finally, he was elected in 1870 to the presidency of the Anthropological Society.
caption: Rokitansky's arms as baron, granted in 1874
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