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William Osler
Canadian physician and co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital (1849–1919)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 12 July 1849
- Died
- 29 December 1919
- Place of birth
- Bond Head
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Osler
- Spouse
- Grace Linzee Revere
- Field of work
- medicine
- Position held
- president, president, head of department
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society, Canadian Medical Hall of Fame, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Goulstonian Lectures, Harveian Oration, Silliman Memorial Lectures, honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg, baronet, Person of National Historic Significance
- archives at
- Osler Library of the History of Medicine
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- depicted by
- Edward William Archibald Fonds, Philip Franklin Fonds, Harry C. Cunningham Fonds, Henry Beaumont Small Fonds, George Dock Fonds, Robert Baxter Struthers fonds, Harry Morell Fonds, Henry Vining Ogden Fonds, Thomas McCrae Fonds, Alice Russel Fonds, Osler Society of Montreal Fonds, Ernest Dressel North Fonds
- described by source
- Library of the World's Best Literature, Encyclopaedia Hebraica, Dictionary of National Biography, third supplement, Pioneers in Librarianship: Sixty Notable Leaders Who Shaped the Field
- different from
- William Ostler
- doctoral student
- Adelaide Dutcher
- employer
- Johns Hopkins University, McGill University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Oxford
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Royal Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal College of Physicians, London, Roxburghe Club, Bibliographical Society, American Philosophical Society
- name in native language
- Sir William Osler
- noble title
- baronet
- work location
- United States
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- The Principles and Practice of Medicine
- Counsels and ideals from the writings of William Osler
- The old humanities and the new science
- Aequanimitas, with other addresses to medical students, nurses and practitioners of medicine ;
- Bibliotheca Osleriana: a Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science
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