Jean Nicholas Marjolin (1780-1850) and his son , (Nicholas) René Marjolin (1812-1895): surgeons and morbid anatomists
- Marjolin, Jean Nicolas, 1780-1850.
- Date:
- 1849-1894
- Reference:
- MSS.3443, 5652, 7061 & 7310
- Archives and manuscripts
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About this work
Publication/Creation
1849-1894
Physical description
2 volumes and 2 files
Acquisition note
Purchased from Charavay, Paris, December 1927 (acc.67371), March 1928 (acc.67375), October 1928 and April 1929 (acc.63700), July 1929 (acc.57070), April 1931 (acc.64715), January 1932 (acc.64878) and September 1934 (acc. 67126); from Degrange, Paris, October 1928 (acc.56987), February 1929 (acc.56146), 1932 (acc.65658) and 1933 (acc.66034); from an unknown vendor in Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); from Sotheby's, London, July 1931 (acc. 67540); from Desgranges, Paris, April 1933 (acc.66041); and from James Tait Goodrich, USA, 1993 (acc.349371)
Biographical note
Jean Nicolas Marjolin (1780-1850) was a surgeon and morbid anatomist who lectured at the Paris Faculté de Médécine.
René Marjolin (1812-1895), son of the surgeon Jean Nicolas Marjolin, served as surgeon to the children's hospital of Sainte Eugénie, Paris. During the siege of Paris and the Commune, 1870-1871, Marjolin was active in treating the wounded until he was arrested as a Bonapartist agent.
Related material
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Jean Nicholas Marjolin (1780-1850) also occurs as a signatory of documents held in MS.5421 and MS.7465.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973); Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999); and typescript supplements to those catalogues, produced by Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton.
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- Various - see Acquisition note.