Alexandre Axenfeld
Alexandre Axenfeld (also Auguste Axenfeld; ) (born October 13 . Jul / 25. October 1825 greg. In Odessa ; † 25. August 1876 in Paris ) was a Russian - French doctor.
Life
Alexandre Axenfeld was the son of the Yiddish writer Israel Aksenfeld . After leaving school in Odessa, he went to Paris to Medicine study. He received his doctorate in medicine at the Sorbonne with a thesis on complications of trachea incision in children with diphtheria . During the cholera epidemics in Paris in 1849 and 1854, his efforts were rewarded with two medals. After becoming a French citizen, he was also awarded the gold medal by the Assistance Publique social welfare organization in Paris .
Axenfeld became a specialist in nervous diseases, professor at the Sorbonne in the medical department and chief physician at the Hôpital Baujon . He took care of Adèle Hugo in February 1872 . Gustave Flaubert knew him and quoted him in a letter to Philippe Leparfait: “Do you know that one of Osmoy's children is very sick? He wrote this to me yesterday in Croisset , adding that he had Axenfeld come to Évreux ”.
His brother Henri Axenfeld was a painter.
Axenfeld resigned his professional activity in 1871 as a result of a serious brain disease which he succumbed to on August 25, 1876 at the age of 50 in Paris.
Fonts
- The principaux accidents que l'on observe après la trachéotomie, chez les enfants atteints de croup. Paris 1853 (dissertation).
- Des influences nosocomiales. Malteste, Paris 1857 ( archive.org ).
- The lésions atrophiques de la moelle épinière. In: Archives générales de médecine. 1863, 6th series, vol. II, p. 210 ff. And 455 ff.
- Jean de Wier et les Sorciers. Baillère, Paris 1866.
- with Jules Béclard : Rapport sur les Progrès de la Médecine en France. Imprimerie impériale, Paris 1867.
- Traité des névroses. 2nd edition, ed. by Henri Huchard . Baillère, Paris 1883 ( digitized on Gallica ).
literature
- Nouveau Dictionnaire Larousse illustré.
- Pagel: Biographical Lexicon. Vienna 1901.
Web links
- The staff room at the Hôpital de la Charité on freres-goncourt.fr
- The staff room at the Hôpital de la Charité in 1860, woodcut by H. Linton after a drawing by Gustave Doré, published in Monde illustré on January 21, 1860; on the page freres-goncourt.fr
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Axenfeld, Alexandre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Axenfeld, Auguste; Axenfeld, Alexander |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-French doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1825 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Odessa |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 25, 1876 |
| Place of death | Paris |