Walter Pagel (12 November 1898 to 25 March 1983)

Walter Pagel (12 November 1898 to 25 March 1983).

Walter Pagel was born in Berlin, the son of Julius Leopold Pagel, the well-known medical historian, who contributed numerous articles to August Hirsch's Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden A erzte and who put the study of medieval anatomy and surgery on the map. After a classical philological education, Walter Pagel graduated in medicine in Berlin in 1922. After posts in the Pathology Dep...

Science, medicine and society in the Renaissance (essays to honour Walter Pagel)

Science, medicine and society in the Renaissance (essays to honour Walter Pagel), ed. by ALLEN G. The very title of this book reflects the influence exerted by Walter Pagel on contemporary historians. Perhaps more than any other historian of this century he has emphasized both by precept and example the inadequacy of historical motifs narrowly conceived from the twentieth-century point of view....

Lecture 24 — November 25

Medicus Europaeus: Prof. Pavel Schmidt, MD, PhD (25 November 1933-11 March 1994).

The papers of Walter Pagel in the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre.

One of my favourite images of Walter Pagel (1898-1983) is a photograph taken of him in 1978: an old man in his study surrounded by his books, heaps of papers, old envelopes, a pot of glue and trailing electric wires (see Plate la).' It vividly expresses Pagel's character as I came to know it while cataloguing his papers-a character which showed very strongly compared to those of some other peop...