Studies of medicine at the universities of Vienna and Prague; 1827 assistant at the pathological-anatomical institute; 1828 doctorate; 1834 prosector at the General Hospital in Vienna and associate professor of pathology; 1844 chair of pathological anatomy; memberships in several scientific and political institutions and organisation of the medical lectures at university; 1869 president of the Academy of Sciences at Vienna; 1870 president of the anthropological association at Vienna; 1875 retirement.
