Walter Pagel


Walter Traugott Ulrich Pagel
was a German pathologist and medical historian.
Pagel was born in Berlin, the son of the famous physician and historian of medicine Julius Leopold Pagel. He married Dr. Magda Koll in 1920 and with her had a son, Bernard, in 1930. Pagel took his doctorate in Berlin in 1922 and became professor in Heidelberg in 1931. The family moved to Britain in 1933 for fear of prosecution as Jews. Pagel practiced as Consultant Pathologist to the Central Middlesex Hospital, Harlesden, in Greater London From 1939 to 1956, and continued at the Clare Hall Hospital, Barnet, Hertfordshire from 1956 to 1967, when he retired. Following his retirement he began to devote his efforts to writing the history of medicine.
Walter Pagel died in Mill Hill in 1983.

Selected publications

He was awarded the Dexter Award, the George Sarton Medal, Julius Pagel Medal, the Robert Koch Prize and in 1976 the William H. Welch Medal along with becoming a Fellow of the British Academy.
In 1979 he was awarded the .