Ferdinand-Jean Darier

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Ferdinand-Jean Darier (born April 26, 1856 in Budapest , † June 4, 1938 in Longpont-sur-Orge , Département Seine-et-Oise ) was a French dermatologist .

Life

Darier comes from a Huguenot family who emigrated from France in the 17th century. Before he was born, his parents moved to Budapest when he was eight years old, to Geneva . As a child, Darier was fluent in French, German and Hungarian. At fifteen he began in Geneva , a medical school , but moved in 1878 to Paris . After his doctorate in 1885, he went to the laboratory of Louis-Antoine Ranvier . From 1909 to 1922 he was head of the medical department at the Hôpital Saint-Louis .

plant

Darier belonged to Ernest Henri Besnier (1831–1909), to whom he had assisted before his doctorate, Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq (1856–1928), Raymond Sabouraud (1864–1938), and Jean Alfred Fournier to the "Big 5" the Paris School. He was one of the pioneers of radiation therapy , chemotherapy , histopathology and vaccinations .

Some eponyms are named after Darier :

literature

  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Darier, Ferdinand-Jean. In: Werner E. Gerabek et al. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of medical history. De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, vol. 1, p. 286 ( online ).

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