100th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1957 - 2.40 Shilling

Julius Wagner-Jauregg was born on 7 March 1857 in Wels as the son of a k.k. Born a financial officer, who had been raised for his merits in the hereditary peerage. In 1880 he received his doctorate in Vienna to the doctor of all medicine. He then joined as a second assistant in the Institute of General and Experimental Pathology Professor Stricker. For mainly financial reasons, however, he accepted in 1883 an assistant position at the Lower Austrian provincial hospital under Professor Leidesdorf. In 1889 he was called as an associate professor at the psychiatric-neurological clinic in Graz. In 1902 he took over the psychiatric-neurological clinic of the Vienna General Hospital, which he led until his retirement in 1928. He died on September 28, 1940 in Vienna. Jauregg had a great impact on public life throughout his life beyond his medical-scientific work. He played a significant role in the reform and improvement of asylum legislation in Austria and was awarded in 1937 with the award of the honorary doctorate of the Vienna Law School. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Honorary President of the Society of Physicians and the Association for Psychiatry and Neurology in Vienna.