Bastian, H. Charlton

LC control no.	n 83237219
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Bastian, H. Charlton *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Bastian, Henry Charlton, 1837-1915
Birth date	1837-04-26
Death date	1915-11-17
Place of birth	Truro (England)
Place of death	Chesham (England)
Field of activity	Medicine Life--Origin
Affiliation	University College, London National Hospital, Queen Square
Found in	His A treatise on aphasia and other speech defects, 1984: CIP t.p. (H. Charlton Bastian) LCCN 08-2244: His Le cerveau organe de la pensée ... 1888 (hdg.: Bastian, Henry Charlton, 1837-1915; usage: H. Charlton Bastian) Royal College of Physicians website, viewed December 5, 2024: Henry Charlton Bastian (b. 26 April 1837 d.17 November 1915 ... Charlton Bastian was born at Truro and educated at Falmouth and University College, London, where he took the degrees of M.A. in 1861 and of M.B. in 1863. His first appointments were as assistant physician and lecturer on pathology to St. Mary's Hospital. These he resigned in 1867 to become professor of pathology at University College and assistant physician at University College Hospital; he later became full physician and in 1887 succeeded to the chair of medicine. In 1868 he was elected assistant physician, and in 1887 physician to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic. For early work on parasitology he was made an F.R.S. at the age of thirty-one ... For the greater part of his life, Bastian devoted himself to the study of the nervous system and became ... a recognised pioneer in the modern science of neurology. For many years he made a particular study of aphasia ... The other great problem which Bastian explored, particularly in his younger and in his later years, was that of the origin of life ... He married Julia, daughter of Charles Orme, and had three sons and a daughter. He died at Chesham Bois)
Associated language	eng