 After graduating from the latter university (MD 1846), he was appointed assistant at the Vienna Lying-in Hospital.In 1847, he began to practise in Radnitz, but in the following year, that of the Revolution, emigrated to America, settling in Albany in 1849.There he was appointed on the staff of the Albany hospital, and became a member and later president of the Albany County Medical Society, and senior censor of the State Medical Society.