 1" in Vienna until 1863.From 1863 to 1867 he was the assistant of Adalbert Duchek (1824–1882) and from 1868 to 1871 he lectured on electrotherapy at the Josephs-Akademie, an academy for military physicians.In 1871 Chvostek took over Duchek's medical clinic and headed this until the academy was closed in 1874.