Julius Leopold Pagel was a German physician and historian of medicine.

Pagel was educated at the gymnasium at Stolp and at the University of Berlin

Humboldt University of Berlin

The Humboldt University of Berlin is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities...

 (M.D. 1875). In 1876 he established himself as a physician in Berlin, receiving from the university in that city the venia legendi in 1891, and the title of professor in 1898. In 1902 he became assistant professor of the history of medicine.

From 1885 Pagel was assistant editor of August Hirsch

August Hirsch

August Hirsch was a German physician and medical historian.-Biography:He practiced in Danzig after studying at Berlin and Leipzig. In recognition of his studies on malarial fever and his work, Handbuch der historisch-geographischen Pathologie, he was in 1863 made professor at Berlin...

's Biographisches Lexikon der Hervorragenden Ärzte Aller Zeiten und Völker. He was also editor of the Deutsche Ärzte-Zeitung and of the Biographisches Lexikon Hervorragender Ärzte des Neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Berlin and Vienna, 1901. Beginning in 1899 he was collaborator for medical history on Rudolf Virchow

Rudolf Virchow

Rudolph Carl Virchow was a German doctor, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician, known for his advancement of public health...

's Jahresbericht über die Leistungen und Fortschritte in der Gesammten Medizin.

Pagel was a member of the Mittwochsgesellschaft

Mittwochsgesellschaft

The German word Mittwochsgesellschaft may refer to the:* Berliner Mittwochsgesellschaft , or Gesellschaft der Freunde der Aufklärung...

, a Berlin literary society founded in 1824 by Julius Eduard Hitzig

Julius Eduard Hitzig

Julius Eduard Hitzig was a German author and civil servant.Born into the wealthy and influential Jewish Itzig family, he was between 1799 and 1806 a Prussian civil servant, became Criminal Counsel at the Berlin Supreme Court in 1815 and its director in 1825...

.

His son Walter Pagel

Walter Pagel

Walter Traugott Ulrich Pagel was a German pathologist and medical historian. Pagel was born in Berlin as the son of Julius Leopold Pagel. He married Dr. Magda Koll in 1920. They had a son, Bernard, in 1930. Pagel made his doctorate in Berlin in 1922, and became professor in Heidelberg in 1931...

(1898–1983) was also a physician (pathologist) and medical historian.

Works

Among his works may be mentioned:

• Die Anatomic des H. v. Mondeville. Berlin 1889
• Die Chirurgie des H. v. Mondeville. Berlin 1892 (French transl. by E. Nicaise, Paris 1893
• Die Angebliche Chirurgie des Joh. Mesuë. Berlin, 1893
• Medizinische Deontologie. Berlin, 1896
• Neue litterarische Beiträge zur mittelalterlichen Medicin. Reimer, Berlin 1896
• Die Entwickelung der Medicin in Berlin von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart: eine historische Skizze; Festgabe für die Mitglieder und Theilnehmer des 15. Congresses für Innere Medizin. Bergmann, Wiesbaden 1897.
• Geschichte der Medizin Karger, Berlin 1898
• Medizinische Encyclopädie und Methodologie. Berlin 1899
• Biographisches Lexikon hervorragender Ärzte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1901
• Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin. Fischer, Jena 1902–1905
• Zeittafeln zur Geschichte der Medizin. Hirschwald, Berlin 1908

Pagel also wrote essays for the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, including "Gebet des Maimonides," "Doctor Esra," etc.