Jean Noël Hallé

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Jean Noël Hallé (1754-1822)

Jean Noël Hallé (born January 2, 1754 in Paris , † February 11, 1822 there ) was a French doctor, hygienist and epidemiologist .

Live and act

His father was the painter, graphic artist and engraver Noël Hallé (1711–1781), his mother was Françoise “Geneviève” Lorry (1733–1807). He had a sister, Catherine Charlotte Hallé (1755–1841).

Hallé himself was professor of medicine and health at the École de santé and afterwards he worked as professor of public hygiene at the Collège de France . He was a member of the Faculté de médecine de Paris ; in 1795 he was elected to the Académie des sciences , whose president in 1813. In 1810 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . He was also Napoleon Bonaparte's personal physician . He was co-editor of the 1813 Code des médicaments, ou Pharmacopée française , the French pharmacopoeia . Hallé made important contributions to the Dictionnaire des Sciences médicales .

On April 8, 1785, he married Marie Geneviève Marchand d'Epinay (1767-1832) in Paris. The couple had two daughters, Françoise Geneviève Louise (1786–1789), Augustine Françoise Marie (1789– approx. 1876) and a son, Charles Louis Noël Hallé (1797–1861).

In 1790 Hallé and his colleague Boncerf made a log of the miasms of Paris by, as it were, entering the olfactory impressions on a card. He also conducted breast cancer studies , did research on the effects of camphor, and was a great advocate of vaccination . In 1794 he defended Antoine Lavoisier when he had to answer for high treason before the Convention nationale .

He died as a result of an operation on a bladder stone , which was removed by means of lithotomy by Pierre-Augustin Béclard (1785-1825) . He was buried in the Paris Père Lachaise Cemetery (Division 10).

Hallé was a pioneer of hygienic measures in France and an important initiator for the dissemination of hygienic knowledge in the population.

Works (selection)

  • Almanachs impériaux , Testu et Cie imprimeurs, Paris 1805–1813.
  • Catalog des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. Jean Noël Hallé , Librairie De Bure frères, Paris 1823.
  • Air - Air des hôpitaux de terre et de mer. In: Encyclopédie méthodique Médecine. Paris 1787.

literature

Web links

Commons : Jean Noël Hallé  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alain Corbin : Breath of plague and fragrance of flowers. A story of smell. Fischer-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main (1993) ISBN 3-596-24402-1
  2. ↑ Family genealogy
  3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 101.
  4. ^ Photograph of the tomb.
  5. ^ Alain Corbin: The foul and the fragrant. Berg Publishers Ltd., New York 1986, ISBN 0-907582-47-8 pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / aaaaarg.org  
personal data
SURNAME Hallé, Jean Noël
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hallé, Jean-Noël
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1822
Place of death Paris