Rector Markus Müller and Sebastian Schütze, Rector of the University of Vienna, laid a wreath in the crypt of St Stephen's Cathedral at the grave of Rudolf IV the Founder after a service.
An annual memorial mass for the university founder has been part of the academic festive programme of the University of Vienna since 1396, of which the Faculty of Medicine, the predecessor of the Medical University of Vienna, was a founding member. The wreath-laying ceremony at the cenotaph of Rudolf IV has taken place since the middle of the 20th century.