Elizabeth H. Brödel
Elizabeth H. Brödel | |
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 Elizabeth H. Brödel, from the 1925 yearbook of Smith College | |
| Born | Elizabeth Huntington Brödel October 9, 1903 Baltimore, Maryland |
| Died | October 25, 1986 (aged 83) Sandy Spring, Maryland |
| Other names | Elizabeth Broedel |
| Occupation | Scientific illustrator |
| Parent | Max Brödel |
Elizabeth Huntington Brödel (October 9, 1903 – October 25, 1986), also seen as Elizabeth H. Broedel, was an American medical illustrator and daughter of medical illustrator Max Brödel.
Early life[edit]
Elizabeth H. Brödel was born in Baltimore, the daughter of Max Brödel and Ruth Marian Huntington Brödel.[1] Both of her parents were scientific illustrators, Her father, originally from Leipzig,[2] was well known as an innovative medical illustrator based at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.[3] Her mother, a Smith College graduate,[4] contributed illustrations to the Encyclopaedia of American Horticulture.[5][6] Brödel attended the Bryn Mawr School,[7] and graduated from Smith College in 1925.[8] She studied art with her father, and at Hunter College and the Maryland Institute College of Art.[9]
Career[edit]
Brödel worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital after college, as a medical illustrator in the gynecology department. She next worked briefly at Duke University Hospital, from 1931 to 1933. She was a medical illustrator at the Cornell Medical Center Lying In Hospital in New York City from 1934[10] until her retirement in 1969.[9] She was a charter member of the Association of Medical Illustrators when it was founded in 1944.[11] She also taught medical illustration.[12]
Brödel illustrated many journal articles and textbooks, including Williams' Obstetrics (1936 edition) and its successor, Stander's Textbook of Obstetrics (1945).[10][13] Her obstetric illustrations were part of a traveling exhibition[14] in 1945,[15] and at the National Library of Medicine in 1969.[16] Her illustration of the stages of human fetal development reached a wider audience when it appeared in the 1972 Science Year, an annual publication of the World Book Encyclopedia.[17]
Personal life[edit]
Brödel died in 1986, aged 83 years, in Sandy Spring, Maryland.[9] In 1987 she was posthumously awarded the first Ranice W. Crosby Distinguished Achievement Award by the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, "for scholarly contributions to the advancement of art as applied to the sciences".[18]
References[edit]
- ^ Mencken, H. L. (2012-02-01). Diary of H. L. Mencken. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. pp. entry dated January 26, 1942. ISBN 978-0-307-80886-8.
- ^ "Dr. Max Broedel". The Baltimore Sun. 1941-10-28. p. 11. Retrieved 2021-10-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Patel, Smruti K.; Couldwell, William T.; Liu, James K. (July 2011). "Max Brödel: his art, legacy, and contributions to neurosurgery through medical illustration: Historical vignette". Journal of Neurosurgery. 115 (1): 182–190. doi:10.3171/2011.1.JNS101094. ISSN 0022-3085. PMID 21294618.
- ^ "Mrs. Ruth Huntington Broedel". The Orlando Sentinel. 1959-01-22. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-10-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Middleton, Natalie (June 2019). "SPOTLIGHT: The Art of Medicine". SCIART MAGAZINE. Archived from the original on 2020-02-16. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
- ^ Crosby, Ranice W.; Cody, John (1991-08-16). Max Brödel: The Man Who Put Art Into Medicine. Springer New York. ISBN 978-0-387-97563-4.
- ^ "Bryn Mawr Awards Four Scholarships and 11 Diplomas". The Baltimore Sun. 1921-06-04. p. 7. Retrieved 2021-10-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Smith College, Class of 1925 (1925 yearbook): 37. via Internet Archive.
- ^ a b c "Elizabeth H. Broedel, Medical illustrator". The Baltimore Sun. 1986-10-31. p. 34. Retrieved 2021-10-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Brödel, Elizabeth (February 15, 1949). "Medical Art at the New York Hospital". The Pulse: 7–8 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Doyle, Susan; Grove, Jaleen; Sherman, Whitney (2018-02-22). History of Illustration. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 468. ISBN 978-1-5013-4211-0.
- ^ "First of '50". The Pulse: 2. January 1950 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Stander, Henricus Johannes (1945). Textbook of Obstetrics, Designed for the Use of Students and Practitionrs. D. Appleton-Century Company.
- ^ "Medical Art". The Pulse: 10. 1945 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "125 Medical Drawings to be Shown at Yale". Hartford Courant. 1945-05-20. p. 21. Retrieved 2021-10-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ National Library of Medicine (U.S.) (1969). Medical illustration : an exhibit of art as applied to medicine, National Library of Medicine, Sept. 15-Dec. 19, 1969. U.S. National Library of Medicine. [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health. pp. 4–6 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Field Enterprises Educational Corporation (1965). Science year : the World book science annual. Internet Archive. Chicago : Field Enterprises Educational Corporation. p. 21.
- ^ "The Ranice W. Crosby Distinguished Achievement Award – Art as Applied to Medicine". Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Archived from the original on 2015-12-06. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
