¢ CURRICULUM VITAE
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Herwig Czech
Academic Positions
since May 2020 University professor (History of Medicine with particular consideration of Contemporary History of Medicine) at the Medical University of Vienna
03/2019-12/2019 Visiting fellow at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at Charité – University Medicine Berlin
05/2017-04/2020 University assistant (postdoc) in History of Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna
2014-2017 Teaching assignments at the Medical University of Vienna
11/2014-03/2017 Research fellow at the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance, Vienna
11/2011-10/2014 Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, University of Vienna (via an APART fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences)
2007-2011 Research fellow at the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance, Vienna 2010 Lecturer at the School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University (summer term) 2008/09 Lecturer at the Medical University of Wroclaw (winter term)
2005-2007 Recipient of a DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences 2004 Lecturer in the History Department, University of Vienna (summer term)
2004 Researcher at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna 2002/03 Alternative civilian service, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine in Paris 09/1999-08/2002 Research fellow at the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance, Vienna
Selected Awards, Fellowships and Stipends
2014 Visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna 2012/13 Visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
2010 APART (postdoc) Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2011-2014) 2009 Bank Austria Award for the Advancement of Innovative Research 2008
2007 Herbert Steiner Prize, Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance/International Conference of Labour and Social History
2007 Science Award, City of Vienna
2007 Theodor Körner Prize, Theodor Körner Fund, Vienna
2006 Junior visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna 2004 DOC (PhD) Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 2004 Student grant, University of Vienna
2002 Research grant, Viennese Hospital Fund 2000 Student grant, University of Vienna 1997 Student grant, University of Graz
Education
11/2007 PhD in History, University of Vienna
Thesis: Ärzte am Volkskörper. Die Wiener Medizin und der Nationalsozialismus 2003-2007 Doctoral studies at the University of Vienna
03/2003 MA (Mag. phil.) in History and Spanish, University of Vienna
Thesis: Erfassung, Selektion und “Ausmerze.” Die Abteilung “Erb- und Rassenpflege”
des Wiener Hauptgesundheitsamtes und die Umsetzung der NS-
“Erbgesundheitspolitik” 1938 bis 1945
1997-2003 Undergraduate studies in history and Spanish at Vienna University 1994-1997 Undergraduate studies in history and Spanish at Graz University 1993-1995 Medical School, University of Graz
06/1993 University-entrance diploma
Studies Abroad
2005 Duke University, Graduate School (joint study program, winter term) 06/2005 Research stay in Israel (Yad Vashem)
09/1998-07/1999 Erasmus stay at University Paris VII – Jussieu
1991/92 Colegio Madrid in Mexico City (AFS student exchange)
Professional Memberships
¢ Lancet Commission on Medicine and the Holocaust: Historical evidence, implications for today, lessons for tomorrow (member since start in January 2021, co-chair since September 2021)
¢ Center for Medicine, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles (member of the Advisory Committee)
¢ Schriftenreihe der Gedenkstätte Hadamar (member of the Scientific Advisory Committee)
¢ Fachverband Medizingeschichte, e.V. (since 2019)
¢ Kommission für Geschichte und Philosophie der Wissenschaften an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Arbeitsgruppe Geschichte der Medizin (since 2016)
¢ ICOM Österreich (since 2019)
¢ Project Associate in Victims of Human Experiments under National Socialism, Oxford Brookes University (headed by Prof. Paul Weindling, since 2009)
¢ Working Group on the History of Race and Eugenics (HRE) at Oxford Brookes University (since 2005)
¢ Verein GEDENKDIENST (since 1994)
Research Grants and Projects (Last Five Years)
¢ “Brain research at the institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the Context of National Socialist Crimes: Brain Specimens at the Institutes of the Max Planck Society and the Identification of the Victims,” financed by the Max Planck Society, July 2017 to October 2024 (director of one of three research groups)
¢ “Geschichte der Hämatologie und medizinischen Onkologie in Österreich, ca. 1890 bis 1970,” financed by Österreichische Gesellschaft für Hämatologie und Onkologie, January 2019 to September 2020
¢ “Leichen von Opfern des NS-Regimes in der Grazer Anatomie: Namentliche Erfassung und historischer Kontext,” financed by the Medical University of Graz, January 2017 to January 2018
¢ “Die Ernährungsverhältnisse der Wiener Bevölkerung 1945. Verteilungspolitik, Achsen der Ungleichheit und Gesundheitsfolgen im europäischen Vergleich” (with Wolfgang Neugebauer), Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung of the City of Vienna, 2016 to 2018
¢ “Geschichte der Kinderheilkunde in Österreich, 1930 bis 1955,” research grant from Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde, 2016 to 2018
¢ “Die Nazifizierung der Wiener Medizinischen Fakultät und ihre Folgen,” research grant from the City of Vienna, July 2015 to April 2016
¢ “Die Gezeichneten. Der Umgang mit körperlichen und psychischen Schädigungen von Überlebenden der NS-Verfolgung in der Nachkriegszeit,” Future Fund of the Republic of Austria/National Fund of the Republic of Austria, November 2014 to December 2017
Exhibitions
¢ New Permanent exhibition at the Josephinum (to be opened in 2022) (scientific advice)
¢ “Die Wiener Medizinische Fakultät 1938 bis 1945/The Vienna Faculty of Medicine, 1938 to 1945,” Josephinum, 13 March to 14 October 2018 (curator, with Niko Wahl)
¢ Extension of the permanent exhibition “Der Krieg gegen die ‘Minderwertigen.’ Zur Geschichte der NS-Medizin in Wien/The War against the ‘Inferior.’ On the History of Nazi Medicine in Vienna,” Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna (presented in May 2012, project leader)
¢ Remodeling of the permanent exhibition “Der Krieg gegen die ‘Minderwertigen.’ Zur Geschichte der NS-Medizin in Wien/The War against the ‘Inferior.’ On the History of Nazi Medicine in Vienna,” Otto Wagner Hospital, Vienna (presented in July 2008, curator)
¢ Remodeling of the permanent exhibition of the Documentation Center of the Austrian Resistance, opened in November 2005 (texts on Nazi medicine)
¢ Permanent exhibition of the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine in Paris (archival research in France, Germany and Austria, October 2002 to September 2003)
¢ “Memorial Steinhof,” exhibition “Der Krieg gegen die ‘Minderwertigen.’ Zur
Geschichte der NS-Medizin in Wien,” www.gedenkstaettesteinhof.at, opened in April 2002 (concept, realization)
¢ Permanent exhibition at Hartheim Memorial (archival research in Germany and Austria, 2001)
Teaching
¢ “Prävention und Bekämpfung: Die großen Seuchen in der Geschichte,” seminar, 2 hours (with Jakob Lehne, winter term 2021/22)
¢ “Public Health: Aspekte der historischen Entwicklung” (lecture, BL 22/23 - Public Health, 4 October 2021)
¢ SSM3 project study presentations (summer term 2020 to present)
¢ “Die großen Seuchen in Wien. Medizin- und kulturgeschichtliche Aspekte,” seminar, 2 hours (with Jakob Lehne, winter term 2020/21)
¢ “Medizin im Nationalsozialismus. Vorbedingungen – Auswirkungen –
Nachgeschichte,” seminar, 2 hours per semester, Medical University of Vienna, summer term 2016 to winter term 2018/19 and summer term 2020 to present)
¢ “NS-Psychiatrie – Ein Betriebsunfall der Geschichte? Psychiatrie und
NS-‘Euthanasie’ zu heutigen Fragen der medizinischen Ethik,” seminar, 2 hours, Medical University of Vienna, summer term 2015 to winter term 2018/19 (with Ernst Berger, summer term 2020 to present)
¢ Webinar “Fallpräsentationen Lernen aus der Medizingeschichte” (with Harald Sitte, Nina Janjic, Tobias Meischl, Lukas Mokrusa, Josef Yu, April 22, 2020)
¢ “Sportmedizin: Ethik und Medizingeschichte,” lecture in Block 21 – Bewegung und Leistung, Schmerz, Medical University of Vienna, winter term 2018/19
¢ “Problemorientiertes Lernen (POL) – 2. Semester,” 2 hours, Medical University of Vienna, summer term 2018
¢ “Fragestellungen und Themen der Zeitgeschichte – Geschichte des Antisemitismus in Österreich,” seminar, 2 hours, University of Vienna, summer term 2012 (with
Wolfgang Neugebauer)
¢ “Forschungsfragen zur Geschichte der Medizin im Nationalsozialismus,” research seminar, 2 hours, University of Vienna, summer term 2011 (with Wolfgang
Neugebauer)
¢ “The Nuremberg Medical Trial,” seminar, 2 hour, Newcastle University, summer term 2010
¢ “History of Eugenics in the 20th Century,” seminar, 1 hour, Medical University of Wroclaw, winter term 2008/09
¢ “History of Sexuality in the 20th Century,” seminar, 1 hour, Medical University of Wroclaw, winter term 2008/09
¢ “Text- und diskursanalytische Methoden in der Geschichtswissenschaft,” course, 2 hours, University of Vienna, summer term 2004 (with Susanne C. Pils)
Supervisor Activities
¢ Supervision of project studies and medical diploma theses at the Medical University of Vienna (since 2016)
¢ Supervision of masters (since 2017) and PhD (since 2021) theses and examiner of master students at the University of Vienna
¢ Reviewer and examiner at the University of Bielefeld (masters, 2013)
Invited Talks (Last Five Years)
¢ “Tainted medical collections — three case studies.” Roundtable discussion Medical and Anthropological Collections — Their Tainted Past and Problematic Future”
Central European University, Vienna, 2 November 2021
¢ “Reckoning with the history of anatomy and medicine: our experience in Vienna.“
Ethics in Anatomy Symposium, University of British Columbia, 22 October 2021 (online)
¢ “Von den Pestordnungen zur Epidemiegesetzgebung. Geschichte der Seuchenbekämpfung in Österreich” (Keynote lecture). Was muss ein neues Epidemiegesetz können? Rechtliche Voraussetzungen für den Umgang mit
zukünftigen ansteckenden Krankheiten, Van Swieten Saal of the Medical University of Vienna, 28 September 2021
¢ “Heilpädagogik und KJP im gesellschaftlichen Kontext — eine historische
Betrachtung.” 35. Jahreskongress der ÖGKJP, Bad Tatzmannsdorf, 23 September 2021
¢ “Vienna, Radiant City. Radiography and Radiotherapy from the Habsburg Empire to the Second World War.” Opening Talk, Joint Conference of the ÖGMP, DGMP and SGSMP, 19 September 2021 (online)
¢ “Macht und Wahn. Der Narrenturm im Alten AKH und die Wiener Psychiatrie.“
Museum of Natural History Vienna, Festveranstaltung anlässlich der Fertigstellung der
Sanierung des Narrenturms und Darstellung der Pathologisch-anatomischen Sammlung (PaSiN), 7 September 2021
¢ Roundtable discussion: The Legacy of the Nuremberg Medical Trial and the
Nuremberg Code, Plus the Present and Future of Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Inaugural Event of the Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles, 19 August 2021 (online)
¢ “Forschungen an Opfern der NS-‘Euthanasie’: Aktuelle Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft,”
Forschungskolloquium Geschichtswissenschaft in der Diskussion, University of Innsbruck, 21 June 2021 (online)
¢ “Medicine and the Holocaust in Austria and Postwar Legacies.“ Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine: International Perspectives on Medicine and the Holocaust, Harvard Medical School and Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 9 June 2021 (online)
¢ “Coronas Vorläufer. Von der Pest bis zur Spanischen Grippe” (with Jakob Lehne).
Josephinum Lecture, organized by the Alumni-Club of the Medical University of Vienna and the Josephinum, 1 June 2021 (livestream)
¢ “Nazi Medical Crimes at the Psychiatric Hospital Am Steinhof,” Central European University, Presidential Lecture Series, 22 April 2021 (online)
¢ “Neueste Entwicklungen in Sachen Pernkopf-Atlas.” 2. Symposium der
Anatomischen Gesellschaft zum Thema “Anatomie im Nationalsozialismus,” 25 March 2021 (online)
¢ “Die Entnazifizierung an der Wiener Medizinischen Fakultät — zwischen personellen Kontinuitäten, konservativer Elitenrestauration und demokratischem Neubeginn,”
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Arbeitsgruppe Geschichte der Medizin, 31 October 2020 (online)
¢ “‘Since She Was in Auschwitz the Patient Feels that She is Being Persecuted.’
Survivors of the Shoah and Austrian Psychiatry after World War II.” Overcoming the Darkness? Holocaust Survivors’ Emotional and Social Journeys in the Early Postwar Period, Yad Vashem, Israel, 22 September 2020 (online)
¢ Commentary on: Andrew Wisely, “The Deception of SS-Physician Franz Lucas.
Making Sense of His Defense Narrative Between 1955 and 1980.” Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, 15 April 2020 (online)
¢ “Österreichische Ärzte im Nationalsozialismus,” Universität Wien, Fachbereichsbibliothek Zeitgeschichte, 21 January 2020
¢ “Hans Asperger, Konturen einer internationalen Kontroverse,” Universität Salzburg, 20 January 2020
¢ “Hans Asperger, autismo y Tercer Reich. En busca de la verdad histórica,” Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, 13 November 2019 (seminar and book presentation)
¢ “Anatomie im Nationalsozialismus – zum Stand der Aufarbeitung in Wien, Innsbruck und Graz,” Die Innsbrucker Anatomie im Dritten Reich, Medical University Innsbruck, 12 October 2019
¢ “Hans Asperger und das Asperger-Syndrom – Konturen einer internationalen Kontroverse,” 57. Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde, Klagenfurt, 19 to 21 September 2019
¢ “The History of Medical Education in Vienna,” AMEE Annual Conference 2019, Vienna, 24 to 28 August 2019 (with Franz Kainberger)
¢ “Wissenschaftliche Forschung im Kontext der NS-Krankentötungen vor und nach 1945,” Die Utopie des “gesunden Volkskörpers.” Von der “Erb- und Rassenhygiene”
zur NS-Euthanasie. 29. International Summer Academy of the Institute for Jewish History in Austria, Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art, Vienna, 3 to 5 July 2019
¢ “Regenerating the Nation: Eugenics and Race Hygiene in Post-WW I Austria,”
Fearing for the Nation: Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europa in the 20th Century,
¢ “Die medizinische Begutachtung von Verfolgten des Nationalsozialismus in der Opferfürsorge,” Gutachten/Begutachtete, Forschungszentrum Medical Humanities, University of Innsbruck, 18 and 19 December 2018
¢ “Hans Asperger und die Rolle der Heilpädagogik im Nationalsozialismus,” lecture series Behinderung und Gesellschaft of the Department of Education, University of Vienna, 10 December 2018
¢ “Psychiatrie im NS-Staat,” lecture series Behinderung und Gesellschaft of the Department of Education, University of Vienna, 12 November 2018
¢ “Hans Asperger und die Heilpädagogik im Nationalsozialismus. Zwischen Distanz, Anbiederung und Verstrickung,” Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, 8 November 2018
¢ “‘Cleansing the National Body’: 1938 as a Turning Point for Medicine in Austria,”
Forty-Second Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, 27 to 30 September 2018
¢ “Venereal Disease, Prostitution and the Control of Sexuality in Nazi Vienna,”
European Capitals under German Occupation, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 20 and 21 September 2018
¢ “Medizin und Politik: Entwicklungslinien in der Ersten und Zweiten Republik,” lecture series Medizin et al., Medical University of Vienna, 24 May 2018
¢ “Psychiatrie im Nationalsozialismus – von der ‘Rassenhygiene’ zum Massenmord,”
lecture series Zur Geschichte der Psychiatrie und des Umgangs mit psychisch Kranken in Österreich, 16. bis 21. Jahrhundert, Medical University of Vienna, 4 May 2018
¢ “Pathologie der Verfolgten. Transnationale Debatten um Gesundheitsschäden von NS-Opfern,” Österreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag, Vienna, 5 to 7 April 2018
¢ “Gesundheit, ‘Volk’ und ‘Rasse.’ Die Rolle der Medizin im Nationalsozialismus,”
Zeitgeschichte Museum Ebensee, 28 September 2017
¢ “Post-War Trials against Medical Perpetrators in Austria,” Medical Ethics in the 70 Years after the Nuremberg Code, 1947 to the Present, Medical University of Vienna, 2 to 3 March 2017
¢ “Hans Asperger und die Heilpädagogik im Nationalsozialismus. Zwischen Distanz, Anbiederung und Verstrickung,” Kolloquium zur Medizin- und
Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Institute of the History of Medicine, Justus Liebig University Gießen, 23 January 2017
Organization of Workshops and Conferences
¢ “Medical Ethics in the 70 Years after the Nuremberg Code, 1947 to the Present,” 2 to 3 March 2017, Medical University of Vienna (organized with Christiane Druml and Paul Weindling)
¢ “Austrian Physicians and National Socialism. Historical Facts, Post-War Legacy, and Implications for Today,” 16 April 2015, Medical University of Vienna (organized with Paul Weindling)
¢ “Social Hygiene, Eugenics and Heredity in Central Europe, 1900-1940,” Second Meeting of the Working Group for the History of Bio-Medicine and Racial Sciences in Central and Southeast Europe, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, 1 December 2006 (with Marius Turda)
¢ “Biopolitische Institutionen: Zur Geschichte der Gesundheitsämter 1870-1950,”
Institute for the History of Medicine, Berlin, 17 to 19 June 2005 (organized with Johannes Vossen and Axel Hüntelmann)
¢ “Demokratie raus – Faschismus rein? Das austrofaschistische Regime: ein christlich- deutsches Vorspiel zum NS-Staat?,” Tagung des Verein Gedenkdienst, Salzburg, 28 to 30 May 2004 (member of the organization committee)
¢ “Heilen und Töten,” Tagung des Verein Gedenkdienst, Salzburg, 25 to 27 May 2001 (member of the organization committee)
¢ “Gedenken ohne Zeitzeugen?” Tagung des Verein Gedenkdienst, Salzburg, 2 to 4 June 2000 (member of the organization committee)
Selected Interviews for Radio and TV (Last Five Years)
¢ ORF III, documentary on the history of hygiene in Vienna (to be broadcast in November 2021)
¢ Servus TV, “Viren als Wunderwaffe der Medizin — Fluch oder Segen?” 8 July 2021
¢ ORF 2, Am Schauplatz “Impfen — das gespaltene Land,” 10 June 2021
¢ ORF 2, “Welt der Seuchen,” 16 May 2021
¢ ORF, ZIB 2, “Pandemie einst und jetzt,” 2 March 2021
¢ Ö1, “Radiokolleg — Schutzschild und Abwehr. Das menschliche Immunsystem,” 28 January 2021
¢ W24/R9, “Denksteine: Plätze und Geschichten — Der liebe Augustin-Platz,” 22 December 2020
¢ Ö1, Moment — Wort der Woche “Schutzimpfung,” 2 December 2020
¢ Ö1, Moment – Leben heute: “Verhaltensform Spucken”, 18 November 2020
¢ Joonas Berghäll, documentary “The Red Ring” (Finland 2021) (interview on Ignaz Semmelweis)
¢ ORF III, “Erbe Österreich”: “Maria Theresias Vampirjäger” (interview on Gerard van Swieten), 10 November 2020
¢ NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), documentary “The Nazis and Asperger’s Children,” first broadcast 29 November 2020
¢ BBC Radio 3, Composer of the Week: Beethoven — Spirit of the Age: Medicine (interview), 24 September 2020
¢ Ö1, Dimensionen, “Kollektive Anamnese. Krankheitsgeschichten aus dem 20.
Jahrhundert,” 15 June 2020
¢ ORF II, “Thema,” 6 April 2020
¢ Ö1, Moment — Wort der Woche “Quarantäne,” 5 February 2020
¢ Ö1, Dimensionen, “Gnadentod als Massenmord,” 5 September 2019
¢ BR Fernsehen, “Im Schatten der Mondlandung,” 17 July 2019
¢ Ö1, Salzburger Nachtstudio, “Auf der Suche nach der ‘Österreichischen Seele.’ Zum 25. Todestag Erwin Ringels,” 17 July 2019
¢ ORF, Radio Tirol, 8 May 2019
¢ Rai Südtirol, Mittagsmagazin, 7 May 2019
¢ ORF Tirol, Tirol heute, 6 May 2019 (studio guest)
¢ ORF III, “Diagnose unbrauchbar – Die Opfer der NS-Euthanasie,” 4 May 2019
¢ Televisión Española, Telediario, 12 April 2019
¢ ORF III, Meryns Sprechzimmer, “Krankenhauskeime,” 20 February 2019
¢ Okto TV, “Tandem. Gesundheit und Fitness,” 5 January 2019
¢ SWR 2, “Hans Asperger und die toten Kinder vom Spiegelgrund,” 8 November 2018
¢ ORF, ZIB 2, 12 October 2018
¢ Interview with John Donvan und Caren Zucker (authors of “In a Different Key. The Story of Autism”) for a forthcoming TV documentary, San Francisco, 4 October 2018
¢ Hessischer Rundfunk, “Tödliche Diagnosen. Der Autismusforscher Hans Asperger und seine Rolle in der NS-Kindereuthanasie,” 26 August 2018
¢ Ö1, Wissen aktuell, “Wie umgehen mit Forschungsergebnissen aus der NS-Zeit?,” 21 June 2018
¢ ORF III, “ORF-Legenden: Gunther Philipp,” 2 June 2018
¢ Deutschlandfunk, “Wie Hans Asperger in den Nationalsozialismus verstrickt war,” 31 May 2018
¢ RMC Découverte, “Aribert Heim, médecin du camp de Mauthausen,” 11 May 2018
¢ Agence France Presse, interview on Hans Asperger, 18 April 2018
¢ BBC World Service Radio, live interview on Hans Asperger, 19 April 2018
¢ ORF, ZIB 2, interview on Hans Asperger, 19 April 2018
¢ National Public Radio, Here & Now, interview on Hans Asperger, 20 April 2019
¢ CBC Radio One, As it Happens, interview on Hans Asperger, 20 April 2019
¢ Ö1, Journal Panorama, “Mediziner in der NS-Zeit,” 5 April 2018
¢ Ö1, Wissen aktuell, 14 March 2018
¢ Ö1, Radiokolleg “Den Nerv getroffen,” 14 February 2018
¢ NBC, “Hunting for the Victims of Nazi Brain Experiments,” 28 September 2017
¢ Ö1, Dimensionen, 70 Years Nuremberg Medical Trial, 12 April 2017
Podcasts
¢ Profil History-Podcast “Was wir von der Spanischen Grippe lernen können” (by Christa Zöchling), 11 July 2021
¢ Stimmen der Kulturwissenschaften 6 (2011)
[https://stimmen.univie.ac.at/?s=Czech%2C+Herwig]
Coverage in Print and Other Media (Last Five Years)
Der Standard (1 March 2017), science.orf.at (1 March 2017), Kurier (2 March 2017), science.orf.at (2 May 2017), Deutsche Welle (2 May 2017), Medical Tribune (3 May 2017), AméricaEcononomía Lifestyle (3 May 2017), Max Planck Journal (5/2017), Nowe Państwo (June 2017); Die Presse (29 October 2017), Der Standard (4 May 2017), Der Standard (6 February 2018), Kurier (14 March 2018), science.orf.at (15 March 2018), MedUnique (March 2018), New York Times (31 March 2018), Newsletter MedUni Wien (12 July 2018), progress (18 July 2018), Mein Bezirk (13, 19 September 2018), Wina. Das jüdische Stadtmagazin (December 2018), Vienna Online (7 March 2019), APA (7 March 2019), Kleine Zeitung (7 March 2019), Die Presse (30 March 2019), tirol.orf.at (7 May 2019), Science.apa.at (7 May 2019), The Glocalist (7 May 2019), Kurier (7 May 2019), Mein Bezirk (7 May 2019), Tiroler Tageszeitung (7 May 2019), Der Standard (8 May 2019), Kronen Zeitung (8 May 2019), Die Presse (11 May 2019), science.orf.at (1 April 2019), Medical Tribune (9 June 2019), Österreichische Ärztezeitung (15 December 2019); Mirage News (17 February 2020); Kurier (14 March 2020); Kurier (23 March 2020); Falter (25 March 2020); MedMedia (31 March 2020);
Die Presse (Spektrum) (11 April 2020);
https://www.howareyougettingby.com/post/today-we-speak-to-a-medical-historian- herwig-czech-in-austria; Kurier (24 May 2020); Kurier (13 September 2020); Kurier (11 November 2020); Die Presse (21 November 2020); Salzburger Nachrichten (11 January 2021); Kurier (16 January 2021); Kurier (Balmis-Expedition, 5 February 2021);
Der Standard (10 February 2021); orf.at (19 February 2021); Medinlive (23 February 2021); Der Standard (23 February 2021); APA Science (23 February 2021); orf.at (23 February 2021); Kurier (23 February 2021); STAT News (16 March 2021); APA Science (9 April 2021); MedUnique (June 2021); ELTERN Magazin; MedUnique People (June 2021); Profil (17 October 2021); Kurier (22 October 2021)
Additionally, the paper “Hans Asperger, National Socialism, and ‘race hygiene’ in Nazi-era Vienna,” published on 18 April 2018 in the journal Molecular Autism, within days generated more than one thousand media reports around the globe, including by the New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, The Independent, The New Statesman, The Herald, Die Zeit, Stern, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Tagesspiegel, O Globo, Corriere della Siera, Gazeta Wyborcza, CNN, USA Today, BBC, CBC, ABC News, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Tagesanzeiger, El País, Le Monde, Le Nouvel Observateur, La Jornada, Sidney Morning Herald, Hindustan Times, South China Morning Post, Dagens Nyheter, and many more. Scientific periodicals such as Nature, The Lancet, Science Magazine, Scientific American, LifeScience,
SpectrumNews, Deutsches Ärzteblatt, Psychologie Heute, Smithsonian Magazine, and others followed.
This coverage continues to this day, albeit with a slower pace, concentrated most recently in Spain and Latin America following the publication of a Spanish-language monograph based on the paper: La Vanguardia (20 September 2019), Noticias24PTY (24 September 2019), 20Minutos (24 September 2019), El Nacional (24 September 2019), La República (25 September 2019), La Nación (25 September 2019), El Comercio (25 September 2019), El Periódico (17 November 2019), Radio Sefarad (28 November 2019), 20Minutos (4 December 2019), Diario Córdoba (16 December 2019), La Vanguardia (24 December 2019), Enlace judío (26 December 2019), Het Parool (30 December 2019), El Periódico Extremadura (16 January 2020), Il Foglio (21 January 2020), Revista Letra Urbana (No 43, January 2020); Het Parool (11 February 2020); medium.com (30 May 2020); The Psychologist (September 2020); The Dutch Review of Books (October/November 2020); www.ceskatelevize.cz (20 October 2020); Hektoen International (16 November 2020); FOCUS Online (8 January 2021);
Mediapart (18 February 2021); El País Uruguay (25 April 2021); News18 (10 May 2021); AH — Aventuras na História (10 May 2021); Forbes.hu (10 May 2021); News- 24.fr (10 May 2021); Snopes.com (11 May 2021); Szabad Europá/Radio Free Europe (12 May 2021); Newspostalk (13 May 2021); iProfesional (11 July 2021)
Current as of 31 October 2021
