FAMOUS FORENSIC SCIENTISTS-7: EDUARD RITTER VON HOFMANN

Softcover. Reprinted from 'Medicine, Science and the Law' October 1962. 18-24pp. Eduard Ritter von Hofmann was an Austrian physician who was a native of Prague and a pioneer of modern forensic pathology. By 1875 he was a professor of forensic medicine at the University of Vienna. He was instrumental in autopsy studies of the nearly 400 victims of the Viennese Ringtheater fire in December 1881 and conducted the report on the controversial death of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria at Mayerling. With Frontis. portrait. 8vo. printed card covers with sl. 'bend'. Vg.