Collection GB 0120 GC/109 - Schupbach, Jaques Frédéric Alexandre (1906-1989)

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GB 0120 GC/109

Title

Schupbach, Jaques Frédéric Alexandre (1906-1989)

Date(s)

  • 1945-1988 (Creation)

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Collection

Extent and medium

1 box

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Name of creator

Biographical history

Jaques Frederic Alexandre Schupbach was born in London on 11 July 1906, the son of Alexandre Schupbach, a Swiss working for the Credit Lyonnais in London, and Marguerite nee Ulliac, a member of a Breton family removed to Neuchatel. He was educated at Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire, a vegetarian establishment. In the 1930s he worked for various government organisations. The stages in the development of his medical interests and practice are unknown. He was a member of the Astrological Lodge, the Theosophical Society, the British Phrenological Society, the British Dowsing Society, and the Fraternite Blanche Universalle. He was a member of several orchestras in which he played the violin and the viola. He lived in Church Road, Barnes, from the 1940s to his death in June 1989. At his death, his large library of books on social psychology, occult sciences etc was dispersed: the bulk of the medical books are now in the Wellcome Library. These papers form a small selection, made virtually at random, from a vast collection of letters, notes, etc, of which the remainder were destroyed. Some of the case-notes revealed that he had treated certain patients over many years.

Archival history

GB 0120 GC/109 1945-1988 Collection 1 box Schupbach , Jaques Frederic Alexandre , 1906-1989 , alternative practitioner

Jaques Frederic Alexandre Schupbach was born in London on 11 July 1906, the son of Alexandre Schupbach, a Swiss working for the Credit Lyonnais in London, and Marguerite nee Ulliac, a member of a Breton family removed to Neuchatel. He was educated at Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire, a vegetarian establishment. In the 1930s he worked for various government organisations. The stages in the development of his medical interests and practice are unknown. He was a member of the Astrological Lodge, the Theosophical Society, the British Phrenological Society, the British Dowsing Society, and the Fraternite Blanche Universalle. He was a member of several orchestras in which he played the violin and the viola. He lived in Church Road, Barnes, from the 1940s to his death in June 1989. At his death, his large library of books on social psychology, occult sciences etc was dispersed: the bulk of the medical books are now in the Wellcome Library. These papers form a small selection, made virtually at random, from a vast collection of letters, notes, etc, of which the remainder were destroyed. Some of the case-notes revealed that he had treated certain patients over many years.

These papers were donated to the CMAC (now the Wellcome Library Archives and Manuscripts Department) in June 1989 by E Schupbach (brother of J F A Schupbach) resident in Switzerland, and we are grateful also to William Schupbach of the Wellcome Library, who provided the biographical notes.

Papers of Jaques Frederic Alexandre Schupbach, 1945-1988, relating to the Society for the Study of Physiological Patterns (of which he was a founder), and other materials on alternative medicine, including lecture notes, correspondence and case notes, 1945-1988.

Correspondence, reports on hand readings, case notes, lecture notes, miscellaneous notes and publications.

Certain restrictions apply. The files GC/109/4-14 are closed for 100 years as follows: GC/109/4 closed until January 2075; GC/109/5 closed until January 2070; GC/109/6 closed until January 2072; GC/109/7 closed until January 2071; GC/109/8 closed until January 2073; GC/109/9 closed until January 2079; GC/109/10 closed until January 2079; GC/109/11 closed until January 2077; GC/109/12 closed until January 2079; GC/109/13 closed until January 2078; GC/109/14 closed until January 2079. The other papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

English

Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Entry compiled from Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

These papers were donated to the CMAC (now the Wellcome Library Archives and Manuscripts Department) in June 1989 by E Schupbach (brother of J F A Schupbach) resident in Switzerland, and we are grateful also to William Schupbach of the Wellcome Library, who provided the biographical notes.

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Scope and content

Papers of Jaques Frederic Alexandre Schupbach, 1945-1988, relating to the Society for the Study of Physiological Patterns (of which he was a founder), and other materials on alternative medicine, including lecture notes, correspondence and case notes, 1945-1988.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Correspondence, reports on hand readings, case notes, lecture notes, miscellaneous notes and publications.

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Conditions governing access

Certain restrictions apply. The files GC/109/4-14 are closed for 100 years as follows: GC/109/4 closed until January 2075; GC/109/5 closed until January 2070; GC/109/6 closed until January 2072; GC/109/7 closed until January 2071; GC/109/8 closed until January 2073; GC/109/9 closed until January 2079; GC/109/10 closed until January 2079; GC/109/11 closed until January 2077; GC/109/12 closed until January 2079; GC/109/13 closed until January 2078; GC/109/14 closed until January 2079. The other papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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English

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Finding aids

Wellcome Library online catalogue.

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Wellcome Library

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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  • English

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