Robert Bárány
Robert Bárány is the father of Neurotology, an area of Medicine that explores the boundaries of Otology and Neurology. He was born in Vienna on April 22, 1876. Vienna, at that time, was a part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. His father, Ignaz Bárány, was a bank official. His mother, Maria Hock Bárány, was the daughter of a well-known Prague scientist, and it was her intellectual influence that was most pronounced in the family. Robert was the eldest of six children. He studied Medicine at the Vienna University, graduating in 1900. After his graduation he spent one year in Frankfurt studying general medicine and then studied neurology and psychiatry in Freiburg. It was at this time that he became interested in neurological problems. Robert Bárány In 1903 he was appointed as “demonstrator” at the Otological Clinic of Vienna University, working with Professor Adam Politzer. This was a very productive period, in which he created the caloric tests for studying the labyrinthin