Jacques Ferrand (medical doctor)

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Jacques Ferrand (* 1575 in Agen , Aquitaine ; † around 1630) was a French doctor from Aquitaine.

Life

Ferrand studied medicine in France and succeeded André du Laurens (1558-1609) at the University of Montpellier .

Ferrand is known to this day for his research on melancholy . The first edition of his writing on it was banned and burned by the Inquisition .

Fonts (selection)

  • Traicté de l'essence et guerison de l'Amour. Ou de la melancholie erotique . Toulouse 1610 ( digitized on Gallica ).
    • modern French edition: Traité de l'essence et guérison de l'amour ou de la mélancolie érotique (1610) . Edition, notes et traduction des citations grecques et latines par Gérard Jacquin et Éric Foulon, introduction de Gérard Jacquin, postface de Michel Gardaz. Ed. Anthropos, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7178-4174-1 .
  • De la maladie d'amour, ou melancholie erotique. Discours curieux qui enseigne à cognoistre l'essence, les causes, les signes, & les remedes de ce mal fantastique. Paris 1623 ( digitized from Google Books ). Reprint Nendeln 1978 ( The origins of psychiatry and psychoanalysis , 1).
    • modern French edition: De la maladie d'amour ou mélancolie érotique . Edition de Donald Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella. Éditions Classiques Garnier, Paris 2010 ( Textes de la Renaissance , 153), ISBN 978-2-8124-0061-2 .
    • modern English edition: A treatise on Lovesickness . Transl. and ed. and with a critical introd. and notes by Donald A. Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse 1990, ISBN 0-8156-2467-0 .

literature

  • Jean Starobinski : Histoire du traitement de la mélancolie, des origines à 1900 . Geigy, Basel 1960 (dissertation, University of Lausanne 1960).
    • German translation: History of the treatment of melancholy from its beginnings to 1900 . Verlag August, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-941360-09-9 .
  • Donald A. Beecher: Erotic Love and the Inquisition: Jacques Ferrand and the Tribunal of Toulouse, 1620 . In: The Sixteenth Century Journal 20 (1989), Issue 1, pp. 41-53, JSTOR 2540522
personal data
SURNAME Ferrand, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1575
PLACE OF BIRTH Agen , Aquitaine
DATE OF DEATH around 1630