200 years - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1968 - 3.50 Shilling

The history of the Vienna Veterinary College, like so much in this country, begins with Empress Maria Theresa. Because it was she who founded the first Austrian veterinary school, which was opened in 1767 under the name "Pferdekur- und Operationsschule". The restriction to horses can be explained by their - above all military - meaning. The duration of the training was then two years and was limited to equine medicine. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the view prevailed that "everything that belongs to thierarzney science should also be taught, not just what concerns the horse." The school was affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Vienna and strengthened its excellent European reputation during this period of accelerated development. In 1896, the school was elevated to the rank of college, and in 1905 she received her present name. After the two wars, the Veterinary College was rebuilt and modernized. As the only training and research center of this kind in Austria, the university currently comprises 17 faculties, to which the corresponding institutes and clinics are affiliated. In recent decades, about 40 percent of the students came from abroad, mainly from Europe, but also from North and South America as well as from Asia and Africa.