Alfred Stengel | |
Birth Date: | 1868 |
Birth Place: | Lancaster County, Pennsylvania |
Death Date: | 1939 |
Citizenship: | American |
Occupation: | physician |
Professor Alfred Stengel (1868–1939) was an American surgeon, born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He was president of the American College of Physicians, a clinical professor of medicine at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, and a member of the American Philosophical Society.[1] [2]
Stengel was born in Pittsburgh, the son of Gottfried Stengel, in 1868. In 1889, whilst studying, he and a group of students commissioned Thomas Eakins to paint The Agnew Clinic. Stengel can be found in the center of the portrait.[3]