Oertel, Horst, (1873-1956)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/30
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Oertel, Horst, (1873-1956)
Date(s)	: c1940
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Oertel | Horst | 1873-1956 | pathologist
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Professor Oertel was Strathcona Professor of Pathology at McGill University, Canada, from 1919-1938, subsequently he retired to London. Further biographical details may be found in his obituaries in the British Medical Journal and the Lancet.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

'Essays on the general problems of pathology: an introduction to the study of morbid life by Hans Ortel', c 1940. Typescript, with some manuscript additions and emendations.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These two volumes were presented to the Wellcome Institute Library in 1972: according to the Accession Register 'by the author', but this is hardly possible, unless they had in fact been presented at some earlier date and only accessioned then. They were transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1980.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Mar 2009.