The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopsy" id="mwGg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Autopsy">autopsy</a> for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna" id="mwGw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vienna">Vienna</a>.<sup about="#mwt20" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"Rothenberg"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-Rothenberg-2"}}' id="cite_ref-Rothenberg_2-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_12#cite_note-Rothenberg-2" id="mwHA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwHQ">[2]</span></a></sup>