Special Collections
National Library of Finland
The Otto Engström Collection
Collection materials in format
Analogue
Gynaecologist, Professor of Medicine Otto Ingemar Engström's (1853–1919) collection contains around 6,000 volumes of medical literature, including a wide range of French medical dissertations.
Collection description
Gynaecologist, Professor of Medicine Otto Ingemar Engström's (1853–1919) collection contains around 6,000 volumes of medical literature, including a wide range of French medical dissertations.
The collection is a comprehensive cross-section of the development of gynaecology and obstetrics in Europe during four centuries.
Collection languages
Material type
journals
Books
Accrual status
Completed
Temporal coverage of the collection
beginning of the modern age modern age (turn of the 18th and 19th century to the 20th century) modern times (1900-)Spatial coverage of the collection
EuropeMain collection
Special CollectionsParent collection
Private libraries stored as separate entitiesRestrictions of use
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Keywords
Collection sizes
115
linear metres
6000
volumes
Signum
Humanistisen kokoelman signum (numerosignum) + E.
Provenance
A library collected by gynaecologist, Professor of Medicine Otto I. Engström (1853–1919), whose estate donated it to the Helsinki University Library in 1919.
Collector
Professor of medicine Otto I. Engström (1853–1919)