Charles Guillemeau

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Charles Guillemeau (* 1588 in Paris ; † November 21, 1656 there ) was a French surgeon .

Life

Charles Guillemeau was a son of the surgeon Jacques Guillemeau . He also embarked on a medical career as a surgeon and was King Louis XIII's first surgeon . As a surgeon, however, he was very much inferior to Ambroise Paré and his father, so he gave up the surgical career and in 1626 was admitted to the Paris doctors. In 1634 he became dean of the Paris faculty.

Guillemeau wrote the two anatomical writings Histoire des tous les muscles du corps humain ... (Paris 1612; printed among the works of his father) and Ostomyologie, ou Discours des os et des muscles du corps humain (Paris 1618). He also wrote Aphorismes de Chirurgie (Paris 1622). But he became better known through his representation at the Paris medical faculty. A bitter struggle had broken out then as to whether the medical faculty in Paris or that of Montpelliertake the first position, which eventually ended with the condemnation of Montpellier by Parliament. Guillemeau, a skilful representative of the Paris faculty, came forward in 1654 and 1655 with several polemical pamphlets addressed to Jean Courtaut, the representative of the opposing faculty, who were ingeniously filled with mean injuria, for example in the spirit of the Malade imaginaire of Molière .

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ A b Friedrich Wilhelm Theile: Guillemeau (Charles) , in: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , 1st section, 96th part (1877), p. 315 f.
personal data
SURNAME Guillemeau, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH 1588
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1656
Place of death Paris