100th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1976 - 3 Shilling

Constantin von Economo was one of those professors who reflected in their essence the splendor that emanated from the Viennese Medical School in the 19th century. Economo was a pioneer in the study of the construction and function of the midbrain and midbrain. Furthermore, he recorded the clinical picture of an infectious sleeping sickness, the seat of which he precisely localized in the brain, the encephalitis lethargica. He was also the organizer of a brain research institute, which fulfilled a wide-ranging anthropological research concern in the search for local substance changes in nervous and mental diseases. He was born in 1876 and studied medicine after graduation. In 1906 Economo went to Vienna as an assistant to the Department of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases. Thus Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857-1940) became his boss. In 1908, together with Johann Paul Karplus, he presented an overview of the "physiology and anatomy of the midbrain". In the years after the First World War, he devoted himself to the study of the already mentioned sleeping sickness Encephalitis lethargica. On May 7, 1931, he was able to open his "brain research department" of the Psychiatric Clinic in Vienna. A little later, on October 21 of this year, Economo died of heart disease.