dismissal was converted into a retirement, so that the circumstances made it hard to consider a return to scientific work. Nevertheless, the ethical attitude of the faculty insisted on his reinstatement and he was eventually rehabilitated in November 1950 and reappointed as a professor on February 6, 1951. He retired in 1963, becoming an emeritus professor, and died on October 6, 1969 in Innsbruck. Work Most Steinböck's works were focused on the anatomy of turbellarians. He also published several limnobiological studies conducted in lakes and streams in the Alps. Selected works References 20th-century Austrian zoologists 1893 births 1969 deaths