Daniel Delaroche

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Daniel de La Roche (or Delaroche) (born November 17 or 27, 1743 in Geneva , † December 20, 1812 in Paris ) was a doctor and botanist born in Geneva . Its botanical author abbreviation is " D.Delaroche ".

Life

He was the son of Michel de La Roche (1700–1782), a cloth merchant and citizen from Geneva and Anne Monthion (1702–1773). His brother Alphonse de La Roche (1736–1807) was also a cloth merchant. Daniel de La Roche married Marie Castanet in 1774 and had three children with her: Michel de La Roche (1775-1852), Alphonsine-Jeanne-Pernette Delaroche (1778-1852) and François Étienne de La Roche (1781-1813).

D. de La Roche first began his medical studies in Geneva, then continued it in Leiden and finally in Edinburgh , University of Edinburgh Medical School , where he also received his doctorate in medicine in 1771 . From 1775 he was a member of the Council of the Two Hundred in Geneva and practiced there as a doctor. With Louis Jean Odier (1748-1817) and Charles-Guillaume Dunant (1749-1808) he wrote a Geneva pharmacopoeia , Pharmacopoea Genevensis ad usum nosocomiorum it was published in 1780.

In 1782 he refused to take the oath on the new laws and moved to Paris. Background: In 1781 the bourgeoisie achieved political supremacy and a representative, democratic constitution was established. In the following year, 1782, with the help of Bernese-Savoyard troops, old privileged oligarchies were restored and many families of the bourgeoisie emigrated. D. de La Roche also left Geneva for Paris and took care of the Duke of Orléans' Swiss Guard. He lived in the Rue du Coq Héron and from 1791 in the Hôtel Delessert .

After the massacre of the Swiss Guard on August 10, 1792, he emigrated to England with his wife, his two sons, who were aged 17 and 10, and his daughter at the age of 13. Background: Your loyalty to Louis XVI. (1754–1793) the Bourbons paid the majority of the Swiss Guard with their lives during the Tuileries storm in August 1792 and the September massacre. The whole de La Roche family went to Kensington in the county of Middlesex , County of Middlesex , for a short time from October 10, 1792 . Between 1793 and 1797 he practiced as a doctor in Lausanne before finally returning to Paris, first as a doctor at the Dubois Hospital in Paris, Hôpitaux de Paris à la maison Dubois .

He then began to practice at the Necker Hospital , Hôpital Necker , and became known for his work on nervous diseases and puerperal fever . He actively participated in the fight against smallpox through the smallpox vaccination . The future son-in-law André Marie Constant Duméril (1774-1860) became a member of the Société Philomathique de Paris . In 1806 André Marie Constant Duméril married the young, 21-year-old widow Alphonsine-Jeanne-Pernette Delaroche , his daughter.

For his part, Daniel Delaroche has been appointed Chief Physician at the Saint-Martin Clinic, Hôpital Saint-Martin . He then moved again to the Hospital de Faubourg Saint-Laurent, Hôpital du Faubourg Saint-Laurent dit Maison de Santé .

Taxa named after Delaroche

After him and his son François, the genus Rochea DC became. named from the thick leaf family.

Works

  • D. Delaroche: Bibliothèque germanique médico-chirurgicale. 8 volumes. 1798-1802.
  • D. Delaroche: Pharmacopoea Genevensis ad usum nosocomiorum. 1780.
  • M. de La Roche, Christian Gottlieb Selle: Investigations on the nature and treatment of childbirth fever or inflammation of the viscera in women who have recently given birth. (Original: Recherches sur la nature et le traitement de la fièvre puerpérale. ) Johann Friedrich Unger, Berlin 1785.
  • Daniel de La Roche, Philippe Petit-Radel: Surgery. chez Panckoucke, Paris 1790–1792.
  • D. de LaRoche, LJ Odier, CG Dunant: Pharmacopoea Genevensis ad usum nosocomiorum. Bonnant, Geneva 1780.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vincent Barras: Daniel de La Roche. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 8, 2006 , accessed July 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ correspondancefamiliale.ehess.fr
  3. ↑ gen-gen.ch
  4. ↑ Genealogy (gw4.geneanet.org)
personal data
SURNAME Delaroche, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De La Roche, M. Daniel; La Roche, Daniel de; D.Delaroche (botanical author abbreviation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1812
Place of death Paris