Collection of material related to a farewell dinner for Dr. and Mrs. Henry E. Sigerist. 1947-1948

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Collection of material related to a farewell dinner for Dr. and Mrs. Henry E. Sigerist. 1947-1948

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Collection documents a farewell dinner held at the Plaza Hotel, New York City, 9 May 1947, organized for Dr. and Mrs. Henry E. Sigerist "on the occasion of their return to Switzerland and to do honour to Dr. Sigerist for his fifteen years of outstanding service to this country in the cause of medicine and the humanities." Collection includes: Printed invitation ([3] p.) -- Manuscript note from an unidentified correspondent, written to Robert L. Leslie, one of the sponsors, stating regrets at not being able to attend ([1] p.) -- Printed menu and program, including portrait of Sigerist ([8] p., including wrappers) -- Offprint about the dinner, from Bulletin of the History of Medicine, v. 22, no. 1, January-February 1948 -- Offprint: Zilboorg, Gregory. Henry E. Sigerist -- Offprint: Sigerist, Henry E. Kagan's garrison.

6 items in folder (0.2 linear ft.)

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division

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Sigerist, Henry E. (Henry Ernest), 1891-1957

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Henry E. Sigerist was born in Paris, France in 1891. He studied in Europe, served in the Swiss Army Corps, and received his M.D. from the University of Zurich in 1917. He was lecturer and professor of history of medicine at Zurich (1921-1924) and the University of Leipzig (1925-1932). He then served as professor and director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University (1932-1947), before becoming a research associate at Yale University (1947-1957). Sigerist published ...