François Achille Longet

François Achille Longet (born May 25, 1811 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye , Département Yvelines , † April 20, 1871 ) was a French anatomist and physiologist .

Life

Longet studied a. a. with François Magendie . He continued his teacher's research and became a specialist in modern physiology. In 1853 he was appointed to the medical faculty of the University of Paris , where he took a chair in physiology.

A major focus of Longet's research was the autonomic nervous system . Together with his colleague Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens , he researched the central nervous system ; this work is still considered to be trend-setting today.

In 1843 Longet founded the journal Annales médico-psychologiques with his colleagues Jules Baillanger , Laurent Cerise and Jacques-Joseph Moreau . When Baillanger founded the Société Médico-Psychologique (SMP) nine years later , the “Annalen” very quickly became the mouthpiece of this society and has remained so to this day.

In 1847 he was accepted into the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . On December 24, 1860, he became a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. His academic nickname was Breschet .

Student (selection)

Moritz Schiff (1823-1896)

Fonts (selection)

as an author

Research expérimentales et pathologiques sur les propriétés et les foctions des faisceaux de la mœlle épinière et des racines des nerfs rachidiens . Paris 1841.
Traité l'anatomie et physiologie du système nerveux de l'homme et des animaux vertébrés . Paris 1842.
Traité de physiologie . Paris 1850.

as editor

Annales médico-psychologiques. Revue psychiatrique . Elsevier Masson, Issy-les-Moulineaux Vol. 1 (1843) ff. ISSN 0003-4487

Web links

Literature by and about François Achille Longet in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Société Médico-Psychologique

Individual evidence

↑ JDF Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 273
^ Member entry by Francois-Achille Longet at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 18, 2015.
^ List of members since 1666: Letter L. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 15, 2020 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Longet, François Achille
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French anatomist and physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 25, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint-Germain-en-Laye
DATE OF DEATH	April 20, 1871

[1] JDF Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 273

[2] Member entry by Francois-Achille Longet at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 18, 2015.

[3] List of members since 1666: Letter L. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 15, 2020 (French).