Metadata: Personal papers of Charles Cohen
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archives de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Postal address:
- Campus du Solbosch AX1.222, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50 / Franklin Rooseveltlaan 50, 1000 Bruxelles
- Phone number:
- +32 02/650.35.66
- Email:
- archives@ulb.ac.be
- Reference number:
- ArUnLib-Brussels-202PP
- Title:
- Personal papers of Charles Cohen
- Title (official language):
- Papiers Personnels Charles Cohen
- Creator/accumulator:
- Cohen, Charles
- Date(s):
- 1920/1930
- Language:
- French
- German
- English
- Extent:
- 1 box and 3 folders
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains correspondence; hand written notes; scientific articles written by C. Cohen on the bacillus of cerebrospinal meningitis septicaemia, on tuberculosis cases, on infant nutrition, on Mickoulicz syndrome in a lymphocytic leukaemia; documents concerning infant medicine and file related to a visit to Berlin (1935).
- Archival history:
- The material was confiscated by the Germans and afterwards by the Soviet army (so-called “Moscow archives”).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Charles Cohen was born in Brussels in 1881. Having obtained a degree in medicine at the ULB, he specialised in Paris and Berlin, and became an assistant of Jules Bordet at the Institut Pasteur in Brussels. In 1901 he started his hospital career at the Saint-Pierre hospital, where he became head of the paediatric department in 1927. He was also in charge of the internal clinic of children’s diseases of the ULB. He was a teacher at the ULB since the First World War and was appointed ordinary professor in 1931. This specialist of infant medicine supervised several nurseries of the Œuvre nationale de l’Enfance during the Second World War, he did consultations for the Ligue contre la Tuberculose and inspected sanatoria. Charles Cohen contributed to the discovery of the Cohen bacillus, present in cases of primitive meningitis. Aside from his brilliant career in paediatric medicine, as a professor at the ULB and as a scientist, Cohen was also involved in the Jewish community. He was one of the co-founders of the Foyer israélite de Bruxelles in 1937. He died in exile in London in 1942. (J.-P. Schreiber, "Cohen, Charles", in J.-P. Schreiber, Dictionnaire biographique des Juifs de Belgique. Figures du judaïsme belge, XIXe-XXe siècles, Bruxelles, De Boeck, 2002, p. 80.)
- Access points: locations:
- Berlin
- Access points: persons/families:
- Cohen, Charles
- Access, restrictions:
- Access requires the authorisation of the archivist of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium