Metadata: Elliot Philipp Papers
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Freud Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Freud Museum
- Postal address:
- 20 Maresfield GardensHampsteadLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomNW3 5SX
- Web address:
- https://www.freud.org.uk/collections/researchers/
- Email:
- Email: bryony@freud.org.uk
- Reference number:
- EPh
- Title:
- Elliot Philipp Papers
- Title (official language):
- Elliot Philipp Papers
- Creator/accumulator:
- Philipp, Elliot
- Date(s):
- 1887/1999
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Extent:
- 18 items
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises papers of the gynaecologist and obstetrician Elliot Philipp relating to Sigmund Freud, whom he and his family knew personally.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Elliot Philipp was born in Stoke Newington in 1915, to a Jewish family. His father, Oscar Philipp was the cousin of Martha Bernays, the wife of Sigmund Freud. Educated at Warwick House and St. Paul’s School, Elliot went on to study medicine at Cambridge. When WW2 broke out, Elliot left his first appointment at the Middlesex Hospital to join the RAF. He was offered a long-term commission in the RAF to stay as a doctor and medical researcher but declined, returning to the Middlesex Hospital and then Addenbrookes.During a career which spanned several decades, Elliot was one of Britain’s most prominent gynaecologists and obstetricians, working with Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards in developing in-vitro fertilisation and authoring many works, including his famous The Technique of Sex (1939), written with the assistance of Sigmund Freud. He served as President of both the Medical Society of London and the Hunterian Society, and chaired the Historical Division of the Royal Society of Medicine, during which time he jointly wrote the History of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He also jointly edited Scientific Foundations of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Elliot Philipp retired from the NHS in 1980, but continued in private practice. He continued writing and lecturing until the age of 82 and retained a keen interest in medical ethics, having regular discussions with the Chief Rabbi, Lord Jakobovits and other religious leaders.Elliot’s commitment to Judaism and Jewish charities followed that of his father, one of the founders of the Technion University in Haifa and Kibbutz Lavi. He was an Associate Governor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was particularly keen to help Jewish educational charities, including Jews College and the Jewish Widows and Students Aid Trust, of which he was a trustee for over 50 years.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Freud, Sigmund
- Philipp, Elliot
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.freud.org.uk/collections/archives/archive-records/EPH/
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25