Anton von Jaksch

Anton Ritter Jaksch von Wartenhorst (10 April 1810 in Stráž pod Ralskem – 2 September 1887 in Luhov) was an Austrian-Czech physician.

He studied medicine at the University of Prague under Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, and at the University of Vienna, where he had as instructors Joseph Škoda, Jakob Kolletschka and Carl von Rokitansky.

He earned his doctorate in 1835, afterwards working as an assistant at the second medical clinic in Prague.

[1][2] From 1842 to 1846 he was a lecturer at the newly established thoracic department at Prague, and in 1846 became director at the second medical clinic.

This biographical article related to medicine in Austria is a stub.