Ernest Wickersheimer

Charles Adolphe Ernest Wickersheimer (12 July 1880 – 6 August 1965) was a French physician, librarian and historian of medicine.

He then trained as a librarian and worked at the library of the medical department of the University of Paris.

He published the landmark two-volume dictionary of medical biography Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au Moyen-Ãge (1936).

He also produced an edition of Simon de Phares' manuscript in 1929 which enabled a study of medieval astrology.

He lost his position during German occupation and returned only after World War II to rebuild the library and retired in 1950.