Erwin Stengel Papers

  • Stengel, Erwin
Date:
1950s - 1970s
Reference:
PP/ERS
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:

Two boxes containing copies of his published output as well as unpublished typescripts, a small amount of correspondence, 3 b/w transparencies of the same image (a portrait photograph of Stengel?), and 1 CD-ROM proof of text 'Psychiatry:Deconstructed/Reconstructed'.

Publication/Creation

1950s - 1970s

Physical description

Uncatalogued: 2 archive boxes and 4 digital files

Contributors

Acquisition note

16/08/2017

Biographical note

Erwin Stengel (25 March 1902 - 2 June 1973) was a Vienna born psychiatrist who was forced to emigrate to England after the Anschluss. He took up successive positions in Bristol, Edinburgh and Oxford, intermitting with internment on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien, before becoming Reader at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, in 1943, where he conducted pioneering work on attempted suicide. He moved to be Professor of Psychiatry at Sheffield University in 1957. Concurrent with his work on suicide, he had a sustained interest in the dementias, pioneering advances in understanding of Alzheimer's Disease.

Ownership note

These papers were given to F A Jenner (see PP/FAJ), whose family then donated them to the Wellcome library in 2017

Terms of use

This collection is currently uncatalogued and cannot be ordered online. Requests to view uncatalogued material are considered on a case by case basis. Please contact collections@wellcomecollection.org for more details.

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Identifiers

Accession number

  • 2374