Anthelme Louis Claude Marie, Baron von Richerand

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Anthelme Richerand, lithograph from 1820

Anthelme Louis Claude Marie, Baron von Richerand (also: Anthelme Balthasar Richerand ); ( February 4, 1779 in Belley , † January 23, 1840 in Paris ) was a French surgeon and physiologist .

Live and act

AR Balthasar's father was a notary from a family dynasty spanning four generations of lawyers. He passed away early.

After studying medicine at the College of Belley, collège de Belley - where one of his classmates was a later gynecologist Joseph Récamier (1774-1852) - he went to Paris to the École de Santé de Paris , which was held in 1794 by the Convention national had been established. On Friday, August 2nd, 1799, he defended his doctoral thesis in medicine. Topic of the thesis Dissertation anatomico-chirurgicale sur les fractures du col du fémur . He received his training as a surgeon at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris and in 1807 became professor of surgical pathology in the medical faculty.

On July 24, 1806 he was appointed medical officer of the Guard of Paris, surgical major de la Garde de Paris . Then by imperial decree in 1807, chair of clinical pathology, chaire de pathologie chirurgicale . A. Richerand was u. a. with Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis friends and visited with him the Société d'Auteuil (see Anne-Catherine de Ligniville Helvétius ).

On Thursday, April 11, 1811, he married Elisabeth Martin de Gibergues (1792–1868). The couple had three children, Anthelmine Marie (1814–1849), Wladimir, Baron Richerand (1816–1893) and Pierre Magloire Sosthène Richerand (1829–1915).

During the occupation of the Allied troops and the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in the Battle of Paris on March 31, 1814, he treated wounded and injured as a doctor regardless of their origin. For these and other services A. Richerand was ennobled in 1815 and raised to hereditary nobility from 1829.

Between the years 1815 to 1820 Richerand published a number of studies that promoted his medical reputation, so that in 1820 he was appointed a member of the Académie nationale de médecine in the surgery section. From 1824 he held the position of imperial surgeon, chirurgien de l'Empereur , together with Alexis Boyer .

He was in a competitive relationship with his colleague Guillaume Dupuytren , a dispute that was at times extraordinarily violent until 1821.

From 1832 he largely withdrew from his medical activities and moved to his estate. Here he devoted himself increasingly to literary and philosophical topics.

Works (selection)

  • Dissertation anatomico-chirurgicale sur les fractures du col du fémur. Paris, Crapelet An VII (1799)
  • Nouveaux éléments de physiologie. (1802)
  • Nosography chirurgicale. (1805 and 1821)
  • Desereurs popular relatives à la médecine. (Paris 1809; German: On medical errors of the people. Leipzig: In Commission at C. Cnoblauch, 1811).
  • Progrès récents de la chirurgie. (1825)
  • Nouveaux éléments de physiologie. Paris, (1801)
  • Leçons sur les maladies des os. (1805)
  • De l'enseignement actuel de la méde-cine et de la surgery. (1816)
  • The officiers de santé et des jurys médicaux. (1834)
  • The population in these reports with the nature of the governorate. (1837)

literature

  • I. de Fourmestraux: Histoire de la chirurgie française, 1798-1920. Paris 1934.
  • Marie-Nicolas Bouillet , Alexis Chassang (eds.): Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de geographie . 1878.
  • Joseph-Marie Quérard: La France littéraire ou dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens (...). Paris, p. 39.
  • F. Dubois: Éloge de Richerand. Mémoires de l'Académie de Médecine, 1852.
  • R. Villey, F. Brunet, G. Valette and others: Histoire de la Médicine, de la Pharmacie, de l'Art Dentaire Vétérinaire. Albin Michel-Laffont-Tchou, Paris 1978.
  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Richerand, Anthelme Balthasar Baron. 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. 1249.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anthelme Richerand. Genealogy at: gw1.geneanet.org
  2. ^ Généalogie Richerand. Genealogy with pictures
  3. ↑ Boyer.
  4. ^ R. Villey, F. Brunet, G. Valette and others: Histoire de la Médicine, de la Pharmacie, de l'Art Dentaire Vétérinaire. Albin Michel-Laffont-Tchou, Paris 1978.
personal data
SURNAME Richerand, Anthelme Louis Claude Marie Baron von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richerand, Anthelme Balthasar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French surgeon and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Belley
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1840
Place of death Paris