Kraemer, Wilhelm Guenter Paul

Notebooks (in German and Italian) on pharmacology and pathology, c.1930s.

c.1930s

1 box

These volumes were received from Dr Kraemer by the Wellcome Institute Library in 1979, along with a collection of textbooks, and were transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1981.

Dr Kraemer, who left Germany in 1933 and studied medicine at the University of Siena, was an influential analytical psychologist and consultant psychiatrist, who practised in Edinburgh until 1958, when he moved to London. Details of his appointments and publications can be found in the Medical Directory, and his obituary appeared in the Times of 11 Jan 1983. The volumes date from the time when Dr Kraemer was a medical student, and apart from the first volume, which is in German, they are all in Italian. As all the volumes contain typescript or duplicated notes, it seems likely that these were standard sets of notes issued to students rather than notes taken by Kraemer himself, although he does seem to have annotated them in some cases.