Ernest Wickersheimer

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Ernest Wickersheimer in the Paris Medical Library (third from left, 1908)

Charles Adolphe Ernest Wickersheimer (born July 12, 1880 in Bar-le-Duc ; died August 6, 1965 in Strasbourg ) was a French doctor, medical historian and librarian.

Life

Ernest Wickersheimer's father was a French military doctor who came from Alsace , which belonged to the German Empire from 1870. He studied medicine in Paris, turned to the history of medicine and received his doctorate in 1905 with the dissertation La médecine et les médecins en France à l'épogue de la Renaissance . From 1906 he trained as a librarian in the library of the medical faculty of the University of Paris . In 1907 he completed a six-month internship at the University of Jena , worked for Karl Sudhoff at the University of Leipzig and published several German-language articles in the Archive for the History of Medicine . In 1910 he was appointed librarian at the Académie de Médecine . During the First World War he was drafted as a military doctor and received the Croix de Guerre as an award .

When Alsace was annexed to France after the end of the war, Wickersheimer was appointed director of the Strasbourg university library , which in 1926 received the status of Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg and was placed on an equal footing with the French university libraries. With the German occupation of France in 1940 he lost his managerial position. From 1945 he began to rebuild the library, and in 1950 he retired.

In addition to his management function, Wickersheimer continued to work as a medical historian and in 1936 published the Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au Moyen-Ãge . He has published over 230 articles and book chapters. In 1955, Wickersheimer was accepted as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the section on the history of science and medicine . He was a member of the Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences . In 1948 Wickersheimer was made an officer of the Legion of Honor and in 1960 an honorary doctorate from the University of Frankfurt am Main .

Fonts (selection)

  • La médecine et les médecins en France à l'époque de la renaissance . A. Maloine, Paris 1905 (digitized version)
  • Une version in bas-allemand de Guy de Chauliac . In: Janus. Volume 14, 1909, pp. 486-490.
  • Commentaires de la Faculté de médecine de l'Université de Paris (1395-1516), publié avec une introduction et des notes . Imprimerie nationale, Paris 1915 (digitized version)
  • Le beaume et ses vertues. In: Bull. Soc. hist. pharm. Volume 10, No. 1, (Paris) 1922, pp. 40-45.
  • Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au Moyen Age. 2 volumes. E. Droz, Paris 1936; Reprinted in Geneva in 1979 with a supplement by Danielle Jacquart (= École pratique des Hautes Études, sect. IV e : Center de recherches d'histoire et de philologie, V: Hautes Études médiévales et modern. 35).
Bibliographies
  • Jubilé scientifique du Dr. Wickersheimer , in: Histoire de la médecine, 1960, pp. 102-110
  • Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny : Travaux du Dr. E. Wickersheimer , in E. Wickersheimer: Lea manuscrits latins de médecine du haut Moyen-Ãge dans les bibliothéques de France . Paris, 1966, pp. 236-248

literature

  • Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny : L'oeuvre scientifique du Dr. E. Wickersheimer , in: Humanisme actif, mélanges d'art et de littérature offerts à Julien Cain , II, Paris 1968, pp. 299-307.
  • Marc Klein: Le Dr. E. Wickersheimer , in: Clio medica 1, 1966, pp. 351-356.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Gundolf Keil: Marginal Notes on Danielle Jacquart's Wickersheimer Supplement. In: Sudhoff's archive. Volume 66, 1982, pp. 172-186.
personal data
SURNAME Wickersheimer, Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wickersheimer, Charles Adolphe Ernest (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor, medical historian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Bar-le-Duc
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1965
Place of death Strasbourg