{{Short description|American surgeon}} {{Infobox medical person | name = Alfred Stengel | image = Alfred Stengel 02 (cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = Portrait of Alfred Stengel | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1868 | birth_place = Lancaster County, Pennsylvania | death_date = 1939 | death_place = | death_cause = | nationality = | citizenship = American | education = | occupation = physician | years_active = | known_for = | relations = | signature = | profession = | field = | work_institutions = | specialism = | research_field = | prizes = | child = | module2 = }} 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.<ref>[http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1800s/stengel_alfred.html Alfred Stengel], Penn Biographies, University of Pennsylvania, accessed 18 January 2009</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Alfred+Stengel&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>

==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.<ref name=Upenn>[http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1800s/1889med/agnewclinic.html Medical Class of 1889 and Thomas Eakins' painting of "The Agnew Clinic"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151215113422/http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/features/1800s/1889med/agnewclinic.html |date=2015-12-15 }}. University of Pennsylvania Archives and Records Center.</ref>

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Category:1868 births Category:1939 deaths Category:Medical doctors from Philadelphia Category:American surgeons Category:University of Pennsylvania faculty Category:Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society