Erwin Stengel Papers

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Two boxes containing copies of his published output as well as unpublished typescripts, a small amount of correspondence, 3 b/w transparencies of the same image (a portrait photograph of Stengel?), and 1 CD-ROM proof of text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

1950s - 1970s

Uncatalogued: 2 archive boxes and 4 digital files

16/08/2017

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.

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

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