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NEW BOOK: ERIK WALLER COLLECTION OF MEDICAL MEDALS
The Thursday, March 20, 2014 issue of CoinsWeekly has an article by Ursula Kampmann about a recent book and new online bibliography of medals relating to the field of medicine based on the collection of Erik Waller. Here's an excerpt.
-Editor
Hubert Emmerig has published online a bibliography of ‘Medicina in Nummis’ running to incredible 86 pages. In these 86 pages he already included the most recent reference work by Harald Nilsson, an impressive and comprehensive catalogue of the Erik Waller (1875-1955) collection which was published in late 2013. The catalogue comprises 735 medals, all of them related to medical-historical aspects. Harald Nilsson stands in a tradition which goes back many centuries. In 1893 Adolph Weyl published the catalogue of a collection owned by Sanitätsrath (Austrian title; a sort of “medical consultant”) Dr med. Carl Ludwig from Duisburg. Ever afterwards physicians have collected medals with medical-historical subjects and scholars have published catalogues of these collections. Just think of the famous Dr Joseph Brettauer and his author Eduard Holzmaier, or today Erik Waller, a Swedish surgeon, collector of books and creator of an important collection of medals related to medical-historical subjects now presented in a catalogue by Harald Nilsson. The description of every item starts with its number and subject. Then follows a detailed description of obverse and reverse. You will quickly learn that little bit of Swedish needed to use the catalogue. ‘Präglingsår’ means ‘year of issue’, ‘Konstnär’ is the ‘artist’, and ‘Diameter’ the ‘diameter’. Actually, in the end the language is not so relevant as every single object is photographed. You can buy this book at 425 SEK (= 48 euros) + postal charges on the internet. To purchase the book, see: 0008: Erik Wallers samling av medicinhistoriska medaljer (acta.mamutweb.com/Shop/Product/0008-Erik-Wallers-samling-av-medicinhistoriska-medaljer/diva2:665237) To view or print the free bibliography, see: Bibliographie zum Thema „Medicina in Nummis“ (ww2.smb.museum/ngb/files/Medicina_in_nummis_14.pdf)
To read the complete article, see:
Medicine and Medals
(muenzenwoche.de/en/News/4?&id=2674)
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