Education
In 1867 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna, where he studied under Karl von Braun-Fernwald (1822–1891), Joseph Hyrtl (1810–1894), and Johann von Dumreicher (1815–1880).
In 1867 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna, where he studied under Karl von Braun-Fernwald (1822–1891), Joseph Hyrtl (1810–1894), and Johann von Dumreicher (1815–1880).
In 1878 he became head of the department of obstetrics at the Allgemeine Poliklinik in Vienna, later being named as an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology (1880). He spent his final years institutionalized in a Vienna asylum. Bandl is remembered for his description of the uterine contraction ring, a constriction located at the junction of the corpus uteri and the isthmus of uterus.
This structure is sometimes referred to as the "pathologic retraction ring", or as "Bandl"s ring of contraction".