Gynecologist
Josef Halban was born in Vienna. From 1909 he was assistant professor of gynecology at the University of Vienna and from 1910 he headed the gynecological department at the Vienna General Hospital.
Professor Halban gained great credit for his studies in the field of inner secretion of the ovaries. His works include Operative Behandlung des Genitalprolapses (1919), Biologie und Pathologie des Weibes (1924-1929), and Gynaecologische Operationslehre. The Halban’sche Schwangerschaftszeichen (1906), the Halban sign of pregnancy, was named after him. Josef Halban was ennobled in 1917.