JULIUS PAGEL AND THE PAGEL COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL

摘要

A generous friend of Washington University, through the kind offices of Dr. W. E. Fischel, has given to the Medical Department the library of the late Professor Pagel. Tlle collection is being catalogued and shelved in the temporarv quarters of the library in the Museum of Fine Arts, 1927 Locust Street. Some facts about the collection mav be interesting to many at this time. Its character anid iniportance can best be understood by knowing somliething about the imiain who collected it. Julius Pagel was born in Ponierania, May 29, 1851 and died January 31, 1912. In the gymnasium of Stolp, where he had for a teacher the eminent Horace investigator, Hermann Schuetz, lie distinguished himself by his scholarship in general and in linguistics in particular. He pursued his medical course wholly in Berlin, where he passed the state examination in 1876. His thesis for the doctorate was on an historical subject, viz., "The History of the University of Goettingeni in the Eighteenth Century."