Walter Schiller

Austrian-born American pathologist

Walter Schiller practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.

The record lists Walter Schiller as Austrian-born American pathologist.

Walter Schiller was born at Vienna in 1887. His recorded nationality is Austria. He trained at University of Vienna.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.

Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.

That the work was done from Austria matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.

Walter Schiller died in 1960, aged 73. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.

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