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Olaf Larsell Papers, 1784-1952

Title: Olaf Larsell Papers 1784-1952

Larsell earned his undergraduate degree at McMinnville College, now known as Linfield College, in 1910, an MA at Northwestern in Evansville Illinois in 1914 and a PhD. in philosophy at the University of Chicago in 1918. In 1937, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Linfield College. Larsell was considered a prominent educator and author in the field of anatomy and won international fame for his research on the cerebellum. He was a noted researcher in the structures of the brain, nervous system, sinuses and lungs. He served as an instructor of biology at Linfield (1910), taught zoology at Northwestern (1915 - 1918) and was associate professor of anatomy at the University of Wisconsin (1918 - 1920). He served as associate professor at Northwestern in 1920 and accepted an appointment at the University of Oregon Medical School in 1921 as professor of anatomy. He held this position until 1952. In 1952 he moved to Minnesota to become professor of neuroanatomy at the University of Minnesota until 1954. He then spent a year at the University of Oslo in Norway on a Fulbright Fellowship before returning to Portland to continue his research on the cerebellum at Good Samaritan Hospital. In addition to publishing numerous journal articles, he published several books, two of the most notable being, The Doctor In Oregon: A Medical History [Portland: Binsford and Mort for the Oregon Historical Society, 1947] and a work of three volumes: The Comparative Anatomy and Histology of the Cerebellum From Myxinoids Through Birds [Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1967], The Comparative Anatomy and Histology of the Cerebellum From Monotremes Through Apes [Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1970], and The Comparative Anatomy and Histology of the Cerebellum, Cerebellar Connections and Cerebellar Cortex, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1972].

ArchivalResource: 2.46 linear feet, 4 boxes

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