Physician and pathologist
Born in Prague, (now in the Czech Republic), Samuel Basch was associate professor of experimental pathological Anatomy at the University of Vienna, from 1877. He described the system of a new Sphygmo and Cardiography. In 1880 he introduced the measuring of blood pressure into general medical practice.
From 1865 through 1867 Samuel von Basch was the personal physician of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. He published his memoirs from this period. Professor Samuel Basch died in Vienna in 1916.