Erik Waller (doctor)
Axel Erik Waller (born November 29, 1875 in Önum ; † January 28, 1955 in Lidköping ) was a Swedish surgeon and medical historian .
Life
Erik Waller studied medicine at Uppsala University until 1900 , was at Karolinska Institutet until 1905 and then worked as a surgeon in different parts of Sweden. In 1909 he returned to his home province and worked in Lidköping until his retirement. He then moved to Stockholm and between 1940 and 1946 was a librarian with the Swedish Medical Society. In 1951 he returned to Lidköping, where he died on January 28, 1955.
Erik Waller began to systematically collect older medical and scientific literature as early as 1910 and toured numerous cities in Europe. Among the more than 20,000 works that he has collected over time, there are 150 incunabula that were printed in the 14th century in the first decades of book printing and some of them are very rare. Waller's book collection was handed over to the Uppsala University Library in 1950 and today, as the Bibliotheca Walleriana, is one of the world's largest and most valuable collections of medical history literature.
Waller's manuscript collection, which was acquired by the university library in 1955 and contains around 38,000 individual documents, has been made freely accessible worldwide for research purposes. All manuscripts were cataloged, scanned, and the database was published on the Internet.
His collection of historically relevant coins and medals, comprising around 700 exhibits, was collected in the Uppsala universitets myntkabinett .
Erik Waller was accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1940 . On February 6, 1940 he became a member of the Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies .
literature
- Hans Sallander: Bibliotheca Walleriana. The Books illustrating the History of Medicine and Science collected by Dr Erik Waller and bequeathed to the Library of the Royal University of Uppsala. A catalog . Volume I, Volume II, Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1955
Web links
- Uppsala universitetsbibliotek: Vem var Erik Waller?
- Literature by and about Erik Waller (medical practitioner) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Member entry by Erik Waller at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 12, 2020
- ↑ Member entry of Axel Erik Waller at the Kungliga Vitterhetsakademien
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waller, Erik |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waller, Axel Erik (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish surgeon and medical historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Önum |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1955 |
| Place of death | Lidköping |