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Ring of Honour: Two-Piece Monument for Oktavia Aigner-Rollett

Harrachgasse 21 and Paulustorgasse

 

The ring’s inner diameter corresponds to the height of the first female physician in Graz to open her own surgery. Both halves of the monument created in 1997 by Barbara Baur-Edlinger were installed separately at the places where Aigner-Rollett spent most of her working life: next to the Preclinical Institute and at the Paulustor where the General Hospital once stood.

Ring of Honour: Two-Piece Monument for Oktavia Aigner-Rollett

Harrachgasse 21 and Paulustorgasse

 

The ring’s inner diameter corresponds to the height of the first female physician in Graz to open her own surgery. Both halves of the monument created in 1997 by Barbara Baur-Edlinger were installed separately at the places where Aigner-Rollett spent most of her working life: next to the Preclinical Institute and at the Paulustor where the General Hospital once stood.

 

Prominent Scholars

Auditorium, Main Building, Universitätsplatz 3/1

 

Six busts along the entrance side of the hall pay tribute to some of the most distinguished scholars in the university’s history. They include Nobel Laureates Otto Loewi and Fritz Pregl, as well as Alexander Rollett, Hans Gross, Ludwig Boltzmann and Alfred Wegener.

Bust of Jesuit Rector Leopold Biwald

Reading Room, University Library, Universitätsplatz 3a

 

A portrait bust of Leopold G. Biwald (1731–1805), former Jesuit, Physics teacher in Graz and rector of the University, can be seen on the southern side of the iron gallery (by Johann Martin Fischer, 1807).

Bust of Nobel Laureate Ivo Andrić

in front of the Wall-Centre, Merangasse 70

 

The bust in front of the Wall Centre by Dragan Nikolic, which also houses the Department of Slavic Languages, pays tribute to the Nobel Laureate in Literature and alumnus of the University of Graz, Ivo Andric (1892–1975).

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