The sign is placed on the house where the Austro-Hungarian historian Eduard Castel died. Castel, who taught at the University of Vienna, worked hard to renew studies there after World War II.
The house was photographed on the same day by the same photographer
Click for a larger image Translation of the text on the sign:
DR. EDUARD CASTLE
BORN ON November 7th, 1875 IN VIENNA/WIEDEN,
DIED ON June 8, 1959 IN THIS HOUSE
GERMANIST AND THEATER SCIENTIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA,
FATHERFRIEND OF HIS STUDENTS, PROPOSER OF AUSTRIA AND ITS HONOR IN THE LEARNED WORLD,
WORKED AS A GOETHE RESEARCHER AND LIVED AND WORKED HERE FOR 50 YEARS.
AS EDITOR OF AUSTRIA CLASSICS, HE SHOWED THAT SPECIALITY IS NOT SEPARATION.
HE CREATED BY PUBLISHING THE GERMAN - AUSTR. LITERATURE HISTORY OF GERMAN CULTURAL WORK IN AUSTRIA. HUNGARIAN. MONARCHY, A "MONUMENTUM AERE PERENNIUS"
A MONUMENT MORE DURABLE THAN ORE.