Physician
Centurion, 1893–1910
Born 3 September 1865 in Glenville, Connecticut
Died 5 December 1910 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by Samuel W. Lambert and Joseph Mosenthal
Elected 1 April 1893 at age twenty-seven
Archivist’s Note: Brother of Albert Herter; uncle of Christian A. Herter; great-uncle of Christian A. Herter Jr. and Frederic P. Herter
Proposer of:
Century Memorial
Christian A. Herter was born in Glenville, Connecticut, September 3, 1865. He was graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, studied with Professor [William H.] Welch of Johns Hopkins, and afterward in Zurich. He devoted himself to the study of the nervous system, publishing a standard text-book in 1892. He next turned his attention to the problems of pathological chemistry, and was appointed professor in Bellevue in 1897. His lectures were published as a book in 1902.
He was called to the Chair of Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and in 1907 President Roosevelt appointed him to the Reference Board of consulting scientific experts. In 1908 he was made Physician to the Rockefeller Institute.
Dr. Herter’s lifelong devotion to his profession was from pure love of it. It was not his means of livelihood; on the contrary, his wife and he founded two lectureships of $25,000 each, one at Bellevue and one at Johns Hopkins. He was a most brilliant investigator, finding his life in his work, and his forty-five years of life were great with achievement.
George William Knox
1911 Century Association Yearbook