persons Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell

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Name Holmes, Sr., Oliver Wendell
Alternative Names
ID 3069
Gender male
Lifespan 1809-08-29 - 1894-10-07
Professions writer (Q36180), poet (Q49757), physician
Collection(s)
  • Narratives of Encounters in the North Atlantic Triangle
    • Uri(s) https://ica.acdh-dev.oeaw.ac.at/entity/3069/
    References Birkle, Carmen. „Capitals of Medicine: North American Medical Women and Their Encounters with Europe (1850s-1930s).“ Narratives of Encounter. Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW, 2015, 85-105. Holmes, Oliver Wendell. Our Hundred Days in Europe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin; Cambridge: Riverside P, 1891.

    Relations

    Institution

    Start End Other relation type Related Institution
    1847 1882 related >> worked for/at >> taught at Harvard University
    — — related >> studied at École de Médicine, Paris
    — — related >> studied at Université Paris-Sorbonne
    1847 1853 related >> worked for/at >> was dean at Harvard Medical School

    Person

    Start End Other relation type Related Person
    1883 — related >> acquainted with >> had contacts with >> had a meeting with Osler, William
    1888 1889 related >> acquainted with >> had contacts with >> had a meeting with Osler, William
    — — related >> acquainted with Pasteur, Louis

    Place

    Start End Other relation type Related Place
    1833-04 1835-10 stayed in for medical education Paris
    1894-10-07 — died in Boston, MA
    1809-08-29 — Place of Birth Cambridge, MA

    Work

    Start End Other relation type Related Work
    1836 — related >> wrote Dissertations on the question “How far are the external means of exploring the condition of internal organs to be considered useful and important in medical practice?”
    1843 — related >> wrote The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever
    1858 — related >> wrote >> author of The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
    1887 — related >> wrote >> author of Our Hundred Days in Europe

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