Alexis Boyer (surgeon)

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Alexis Boyer

Alexis Boyer , since 1810 Alexis Baron Boyer (born March 1, 1757 in Uzerche in the Corrèze department in Limousin , † November 25, 1833 in Paris ) was a French doctor and surgeon .

Live and act

Boyer was the son of a tailor, he started out as an assistant to a barber ( chirurgien barbier ), who trained him as a craft surgeon . At the age of 17 Boyer went to Paris as a journeyman barber, garçon barbier . There he visited as an autodidact the premises of the anatomy of the École Pratique de la Faculté de médecine , where Boyer expanded and developed his skills in dissecting and studying. He also gave lessons in anatomy. He managed to attract the attention of the renowned surgeons Antoine Louis (1723–1792) and Pierre-Joseph Desault (1744–1795).

Boyer was married to Gabrielle Tripot, they had a son and two daughters, their eldest daughter Adelaide Boyer - previously engaged to Guillaume Dupuytren - was finally the wife of Philibert-Joseph Roux (1780-1854).

Boyer devoted himself to surgery under Pierre-Joseph Desault in Paris from 1779 , from 1782 at the Hôpital de la Charité , where he became a surgeon in 1787 and professor of surgery from 1795. Later he worked at the clinic of the newly established École de santé and in 1804 the Emperor's first surgeon, Napoleon I , premier chirurgien de l'Empereur , who also baronized him .

Under the Bourbons he received a professorship at the University of Paris . Since 1825 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences .

Works (selection)

  • Traité complet d'anatomie (Paris 1797–1799, 4 vols .; 4th ed. 1820)
  • Traité des maladies chirurgicales (Paris 1814–1826, 11 vols .; 5th edition 1843–1853, 7 vols .; German by Cajetan von Textor , Würzburg 1818–1827; 3rd edition, Würzburg 1834–1841, 11 vols. )
  • Lecons sur les maladies des os (Paris 1803, 2 vols .; German 1804).

literature

  • Goudeaux, Edmond: Alexis Boyer (1757–1833), sa vie, son œuvre. Jules Rousset, Paris (1904)
  • Christoph Weißer: Boyer, Alexis. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 203.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in German language @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geschichte-der-medizin.universimed.com
  2. ^ Boyer genealogy
  3. ↑ Christoph Weißer: Boyer, Alexis. 2005, p. 203.

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personal data
SURNAME Boyer, Alexis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH Uzerche , Limousin
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1833
Place of death Paris