Mannagetta Prize for Elena Taddei – University of Innsbruck
The historian Elena Taddei received this year’s Mannagetta Prize for the History of Medicine from the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna on Tuesday. She was honored for her monograph “Franz von Ottenthal” about a country doctor in Tyrol in the 19th century.
He was a modern, politically committed and self-confident country doctor in Tyrol in the 19th century: Franz von Ottenthal. The historian Elena Taddei has dealt extensively with his biography, examining the doctor’s career and his commitment to health policy. She provides insights into the doctor-patient relationship of that time. The history of the treatment and care of mentally ill people also plays a central role in her research.
In recognition of her Monograph “Franz von Ottenthal” Elena Taddei from the Institute for History and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck was awarded the Johann Wilhelm Ritter von Mannagetta Prize for the History of Medicine excellent. The prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), endowed with 7,000 euros, is awarded to scientists up to the age of 45 for outstanding publications.
history of the prize
The name of the award goes back to Johann Wilhelm Ritter von Mannagetta (1592-1666). The doctor received his doctorate in Padua and was then dean of the medical faculty and rector of the University of Vienna several times. He also wrote a plague order and was personal physician to Ferdinand II, Ferdinand III. and Leopold I. His grave is in St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. In 1661 he set up a foundation that still exists today. The Johann Wilhelm Ritter von Mannagetta Foundation supports the OeAW in financing awards in medicine and scholarships in the humanities, cultural studies and social sciences.