Horst Oertel

Background

Oertel, Horst was born on January 25, 1873 in Oberlossnitz by Dresden, Saxony. Son of Colonel Julius and Evelyn (Lossmitzer) Oertel.

Education

Educated gymnasia in Plauen and Meissen, Saxony. Doctor of Medicine Yale, 1894. University of Berlin, Leipzig, and Wurzburg, 1894-1898.

Unmarried.

Career

Instructor pathology, New York University, 1898-1903. Demonstrator pathological anatomy, College Physicians and Surgs. (Columbia University), 1903-1907.

Director Russell Sage Institute Pathology, New York, 1907-1912.

Pathologist to City Hospital, New York, 1903-1911. Research in Guys Hospital, London, 1913-1914.

Associate professor pathology, McGill University, and pathologist to Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, 1914-1919. Strathcona professor pathology, director Pathology

Institute McGill University, and pathologist in chief to Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, 1919-1938.

Achievements

• Horst Oertel has been listed as a noteworthy pathologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Society American Pathologist and Bacteriologists, Pathology Society of Great Britain and Ireland, German Pathology Society, Society for Experimental Medical and Biological, New York Pathology

Society, New York Academy Medicine, Harvey Society.

Connections

Father:

Colonel Julius Oertel

Mother:

Evelyn (Lossmitzer) Oertel