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Bertheim, Alfred (1879-1914)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.6077-6078

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Bertheim, Alfred (1879-1914)

Date(s): 1879-1914

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Bertheim | Alfred | 1879-1914 | chemist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Alfred Bertheim was associated with Paul Ehrlich at the G Speyer-Haus in Frankfurt am Main from 1906 to 1914, in research which culminated in the discovery of salvarsan.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Correspondence and papers of Alfred Bertheim, 1879-1914 including certificates, notes and letters to Bertheim from various correspondents, including Paul Ehrlich and Sahachiro Hata, Japanese bacteriologist, who also worked with Ehrlich. With drafts of out-letters.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Mainly German and English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in two sections: papers and correspondence.

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from V A Heck, Vienna, 1935.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Arsphenamine | Arsenicals | Organometallic compounds | Organic chemicals | Chemicals
Chemists | Scientists | Scientific personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Chemistry
Pharmacology

Personal names
Bertheim | Alfred | 1879-1914 | chemist

Corporate names

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