Louis Rosenfeld Biographical File
Abstract
Biographical file includes several magazine articles, newspaper clippings, obituaries, Rosenfeld's "Family and Personal Memoirs," and photographs.
Dates
- 1982 - 2003
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Reproduction Rights
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Historical or Biographical Note
Louis Rosenfeld, M.D., graduated from Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. A Vanderbilt Clinical Professor of Surgery, Emeritus, Rosenfeld was a member of the armed forces surgical staff during World War II and served in North Africa and Italy. He received the Bronze Star Medal and was discharged with the rank of Major. He practiced head and neck surgery for 46 years on the Vanderbilt faculty, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Nashville, and at the old Nashville General Hospital. Rosenfeld authored Memoirs of a Surgical House Officer and The Fighting 300th, and was co-author of History of Surgery at Vanderbilt University. He passed away in 1999.
Extent
0.01 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Louis Rosenfeld (1911-1999) biographical file
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by EBL Special Collections Staff
- Date
- 2010-07-21
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is inEnglish.
Repository Details
Part of the VUMC Historical Images and Biographies Repository
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