Walter Pagel

Who was Walter Pagel?

Walter Traugott Ulrich Pagel was a German pathologist and medical historian. Pagel was born in Berlin as the son of the famous physician and historian of medicine, Julius Leopold Pagel. He married Dr. Magda Koll in 1920. They had a son, Bernard, in 1930. Pagel made 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 died in Mill Hill. 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, Herts from 1956 to 1967, when he retired. Following his retirement he began to devote his efforts to writing the history of medicine.