Wilhelm Prausnitz (January 1, 1861 in Glogau – September 11, 1933 in Munich) was a hygiene specialist.
[1][2] In 1879 he completed his university entrance examination together with Siegfried Czapski, Richard Reitzenstein and Felix Skutsch.
[3] A full professor since 1899[1] of hygiene[4][5] and was head of the hygiene institute;[6][7] the dean of the medical school at Graz, Austria, as well as a Privy Counsellor.
His grandson Frederik William Prausnitz (1920-2004) was a conductor and teacher.
[8] Prausnitz, his son, rejected the Nazi regime.