Ferdinand Hochstetter

Ferdinand Hochstetter (February 5, 1861 – November 10, 1954) was an Austrian embryologist, anatomist and a professor of medicine at the University of Vienna.

He studied medicine at the University of Vienna and became a demonstrator in 1882 and worked at the anatomical institute under Karl Langer.

He became a full professor at the University of Innsbruck in 1896 and in 1908 he returned to Vienna to succeed Carl Toldt as a second anatomical chair and remained there until his retirement in 1932.

He developed a method of preparing plant and animal material in paraffin that preserved colour and shape and technique for high contrast staining.

His students included Eduard Pernkopf, Konrad Lorenz, Heinrich von Hayek, Drago Perović, and Albert Narath.