Guillaume Rivière

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Guillaume Rivière (born August 15, 1655 in Montpellier , † July 14, 1734 in Lavérune ) was a French doctor and scientist .

Life

As the son of the respected and wealthy chemist Louis Rivière, Guillaume Rivière enjoyed an excellent education at an early age, which initially took him to the Jesuit college in his hometown. Well prepared, he began studying medicine at the traditional medical college of Montpellier ( École Médecine ). After obtaining his doctorate , he began to practice as a doctor - based on rational observation and experiment - whereby it is emphasized that he also visited poor sick people throughout his life and treated destitute people free of charge. His colleague and contemporary Julien Offray de La Mettrie , also known as a philosopher, mentions him by name as a representative of famous modern practitioners .

After the death of Arnauld Fonsorbe in 1696 Rivière applied for the successor to his chair in chemistry at the University of Montpellier, but with Antoine Deidier one of the six competitors was preferred. In 1706 he was appointed as one of the 15 associated members of the newly founded Société royale des sciences de Montpellier in the chemistry section, where he also served as treasurer ( trésorier ) of this scientific society until his death in 1734 .

As a researcher, Rivière planned an investigation of all mineral sources in Provence , a project that he was only able to achieve in part. He also described Gabian's petroleum source and, with the help of chemical analyzes, sought to prove that the fossilized shark teeth known as Glossopetren are not natural games , but organic remains of fish.

Works (selection)

  • Quaestiones medico-chymico-praticae duodecim. Montpellier 1696. ( online at Google Books )
  • Mémoire sur les dents pétrifiées de divers poissons comparées avec les dents des mêmes poissons nouvellement pêchés. In: Histoire de la Société royale des sciences établie à Montpellier avec les mémoires de mathematiques et de physique, tirés des registres de cette société. Vol. 1. Lyon 1766, pp. 75-84. ( online at Google Books )
  • Mémoire sur quelques singularités du terroir de Gabian, et principalement sur la fontaine de l'huile de pétrole qui y coule. Montpellier 1717. - Reprinted in: Histoire de la Société royale des sciences établie à Montpellier avec les mémoires de mathematiques et de physique, tirés des registres de cette société. Vol. 1. Lyon 1766, pp. 220-240. ( online at Google Books ).

literature

  • Éloge de M. Rivière. In: Assemblée publique de la Société royale des Sciences, tenue dans la grande sale de l'Hôtel de ville, le premier de mars 1736. Montpellier 1736, pp. 13-19 ( online at Montpellier 3M ). - Reprinted in: Histoire de la Société royale des sciences établie à Montpellier avec les mémoires de mathematiques et de physique, tirés des registres de cette société. Vol. 2. Montpellier 1778, pp. 228-234 ( online at Google Books ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Louis Dulieu: La Pharmacie à Montpellier de ses origines à nos jours. Avignon 1973, p. 280.
  2. ^ Julien Offray de La Mettrie: Traité du vertige avec la description d'une catalepsie hysterique. Paris 1738, p. 33: Riviere & plusieurs autres celebres Practiciens modern ( online at Google Books ).
  3. ^ Concours de 1696-1697, pour la chaire devenue vacante par suite du décès d'Arnaud Fonsorbe. In: Mémoires de la section des lettres. Edited by the Académie des sciences et lettres de Montpellier. Vol. 7 (1882), pp. 618-628, p. 618. ( online at Gallica ) - Rivière's remarks on the medical topics dealt with by him in the course of the selection process are published in his Quaestiones (see works).
  4. ^ List of members on the website of the Académie des Sciences et Lettres de Montpellier .
  5. ↑ Louis Dulieu: Le mouvement scientifique Montpellierain au XVIIIe siècle. In: Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications 11 (1958), pp. 227–249, p. 233 note 3 ( online at Persée ).
  6. ↑ See Sur quelques eaux minérales du Languedoc. In: Histoire de la Société royale des sciences établie à Montpellier avec les mémoires de mathematiques et de physique, tirés des registres de cette société. Vol. 1. Lyon 1766, pp. 129-137, here p. 132 ( online at Google Books ).
personal data
SURNAME Rivière, Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French medic
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1655
PLACE OF BIRTH Montpellier
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1734
Place of death Lavérune