Arnold Carl Klebs.

Date:
1943
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Arnold Carl Klebs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    subjects and testify to Klebs’s sound scholarship in both their completeness and accuracy. Various papers on incunabula, appearing from 1926 to 1938, culminated in his classic short-title list of scientific and medical fifteenth-century books,10 a book constantly referred to by medical bibliographers throughout the world. It was to have been an introduction to a more extensive study, for Klebs had collected photographs and complete descriptions of over three thousand incunabula of medical or scientific interest, and this material lay in his library, ready to be brought to light, at the time of his death. Superbly or¬ dered, it only awaits the final touches of some future scholar. The short-title list, however, is a royal monument to a man whose life was de¬ voted to sound bibliographic research, and be¬ cause of it, all scholars are grateful. Some estimate of the affection and esteem with which Klebs was regarded can be gained from the number of papers published in his honor on his seventieth birthday in 1940. Because of the war most of his European friends were unable to con¬ tribute to a birthday volume; however, the Insti¬ tute for the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University issued a large, special number of its bulletin containing papers .by his friends and as¬ sociates.11 Never a teacher or head of an institute,
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