Veith, Ilza

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Veith, Ilza
Date of birth
1915-05-13
Date of death
2013
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 2534288
Wikidata: Q59528076
Library of congress: n 50014218
OCoLC: oca00049694
Sources of Information
  • Huang ti nei ching su wên, 1949:t.p. (Ilza Veith, M.A., Ph. D.; lect. in history of medicine, Univ. of Chicago) p. vi (Dr. Ilza Veith)
  • The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal medicine, 2015:Back cover (Ilza Veith born 1912, died 2013, was Assistant Professor in History of Medicine at the University of Chicago and later Professor of History of Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco).

Wikipedia description:

Ilza Fanny Veith (born Ilza Hirschmann, May 13, 1912, Ludwigshafen – June 8, 2013, Tiburon, California) was a German-born, American historian of medicine, specializing in the history of psychiatric medicine and East Asian medicine. She taught at the University of Chicago 1949–1963 and the University of California, San Francisco 1964–1979. She was particularly known for her translation and analysis of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic (Huangdi Neijing) (1949) and her book Hysteria: The History of a Disease (1965).

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