Romeo Seligmann

Abraham Romeo Seligmann better known as Franz Romeo Seligmann[1] (born 30 June 1808 in Nikolsburg, today Mikulov, in Moravia; died 15 September 1892 in Vienna), was an Austrian doctor and medical historian.

He began his studies at the age of 17 at University of Vienna, where he studied medicine and languages and learned Persian in order to read an old medical manuscript for his dissertation, ("De re medica Persarum", 1830).

Later he published an excerpt from the second part of the manuscript: "Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae auctore Abu Mansur., Epitome etc."

In 1860 the Vienna k. k. State Printing Facsimile with commentary appear: "Codex Vindobonensis sive medici Abu Mansur ... liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae".

In 1869 he became a full professor at the University of Vienna and he also carried out ethnographic examinations (especially on skulls) – at this time phrenology was fashionable and Seligmann had fragments of Beethoven's skull.