Education
University of Vienna.
neurologist psychiatrist university professor neuroscientist
University of Vienna.
He is primarily remembered for his studies of psychiatric conditions arising from damage to the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia. He was a native of Saaz, Bohemia, and in 1882 received his medical doctorate at Prague. In 1887 he traveled to Vienna in order to work with Theodor Meynert (1833–1892), who was to become an important influence to Anton"s medical career.
In 1891 he moved to Innsbruck, where he served as an associate professor of psychiatry and director of the university clinic.
Later (1894), he relocated to the University of Graz as a full professor of psychiatry, and in 1905 succeeded Karl Wernicke (1848–1905) at the University of Halle. Iron Cross, 2nd class Board
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina]
Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1911).