[2] In 1881 he received his Habilitation at the K. K. Deutsche Technische Hochschule (DTH) in Prague.
[5] He was considered for a professorship in Vienna, but anti-Semitic political agitation prevented his appointment.
The atmosphere surrounding the appointment of Jewish professors remained oppressive throughout the post-1867 period, and the visibility of anti-Semitic views increased after 1890.
In the 1880s the mathematician Seligmann Kantor was a victim of street assaults, leading the faculty to consider him an inappropriate candidate for a professorship.
In Vienna the press protested the appointment of Emil Zuckerkandl and Julius Tandler.