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.Alfred Stengel, Penn Biographies, University of Pennsylvania, accessed 18 January 2009
Biography 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.Medical Class of 1889 and Thomas Eakins' painting of "The Agnew Clinic" . University of Pennsylvania Archives and Records Center.
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