Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-20
FAMED HISTORIAN
IS CAPITAL VISITOR
DR.. Karl Sudhoff of Leipsig
Will Advise Johns Hopkins
Officials on Methods.

One Of the most notable figures in the
realm of science and letters, DR.. Karl
Sudhoff, director of the famous InSti-
tute Of Medical History at Leipsig, Ger
many, arrived in Washington yesterday
as q guest of DR.. John A. Foote, dean of
the Georgetown University School of
Medicine.
DR.. Sudhoff, alert and mentally vigor-
Gus at the age of rs, with an active in
tereSt in many other sciences besides
medicine, came to this country to adj
wise officials of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity on methods to be employed at the
new department of history opened in
Baltimore last Tuesday. Upon his de-
parture from Washington he will lecture
at Harvard, Cornell and other medical
centers.
More than once Endorsed for the
Nobel prize in medicine, DR.. Sudhoff is
regarded as the greatest living medical
historian. After many years of teaching
historical medicine at the University of
Leipsig, he was made emeritus profess
sor. His researches have made him
known to scientific men the world over.
Is Hieroglyphics Authority.
His talents are by no means confined
to medicine. He is an authority in
Hebrew, Greek, SanSkrit and the Egyp-
tian hieroglyphics found in crumbling
papyri. He has devoted many years of
his life to such researches.
Among DR.. Sudhoff'S special interests,
however, is the life of the Middle Ages
He says 1t was his interest in this period
that drew his attention to the field of
medicine, and his published writings
dealing with this period are numerous.
Under his direction the Institute of
Medical History at Leipsig made a
speciality of finding and printing rare
manuscripts in many languages, after a
long research in the monasteries and
city archives all over Europe, Great
Britain, Asia and Africa.
A man of varied tastes and talents
DR.. Sudhoff is an accomplished musi-
clan and student of music. He is almost
as well known in the science of botany
as he is in the field of medicine. In
odd moments, he has written on the
philosophy Of Goethe and such subjects
as the Rhymes of Sophocles."
Guest Of Honor at Dinner.
At the outbreak of the World War he
was called to the German colors as a
surgeon at the age of IS. While at the
military hospital at Leipsig throughout
the war he wrote to friends in Germany
exactly the same kind of treatment as
his fellow countrymen.
Despite his labors as a surgeon during
this troubled period, Dr. Sudhoff was
able TO produce two-volume work on
Contributions to Surgery of the Mid
die Ages" which is held by American
authorities to be a masterpiece.
He was the guest of honor at dinner
given by DR.. Foote last night at the
University Club. Among those invited
to meet him were DR.. w. Coleman
Nevis, president of Georgetown Univer-
sity; Rev. John L. Gipprich, dean of its
medical school; Rev. Francis A. Ton
dorf, DR.. George M. Kober, dean emeri-
tus: Lieut.. Col. Fielding Garrison of the
Army Medical Corps and the following
members of the Georgetown executive
faculty: DR.. John D. Hird, DR.. Wilfred
M. Barton, DR.. Joseph P. Madigan, Dr.
Nelson Gapen, DR.. Eugene Whitmore
and Dr. Prentiss Wilson.