Laurent Joubert

Laurent Joubert (portrait by an unknown artist, now in the Musée d'Histoire de la Medecine , Paris)

Laurent Joubert , Latinized Laurentius Joubertus (born December 16, 1529 in Valence , Dauphiné , today Drôme ; † October 21, 1582 in Lombez ) was a French medic , surgeon and chancellor of the famous medical faculty of the University of Montpellier .

Joubert received his doctorate in Montpellier in 1558 and then taught anatomy. In 1566 he was appointed professor to succeed Guillaume Rondelet (1507–1566). From 1579 he was one of the king's doctors . After his death in 1583 , André du Laurens (1558–1609), who came from Tarascon , took over the chair of medicine in Montpellier as Joubert's successor.

He is the author of a treatise on laughter ( Traité du ris , 1579), the author of a work on popular errors in medicine and health care ( Erreurs populaires et propos vulgaires touchant la medecine et le regime de sante , 1578) and a pharmacopoeia ( La Pharmacopée , 1588). In Lyon in 1585 his editing of the "Great Surgery" by Guy de Chauliac was published.

literature

Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Joubert, Laurent. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 705.

Web links

Literature by and about Laurent Joubert in the catalog of the German National Library
"Laurent Joubert Website" with a short biography and bibliography

Individual evidence

^ Les Bibliothéques Françoises de La Croix du Maine et du Verdier [...]. Volume 2, Paris 1772, p. 31 ( Google Books ).
↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Joubert, Laurent. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 705.
↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Laurens, André du. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Encyclopedia of medical history. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 829.
↑ Chirurgia magna Guidonis de Gauliaco, nunc demum suae primae integritati restituta à Laurentio Jouberto. Lyon 1585; Reprint, ed. by Gundolf Keil, Darmstadt 1976; 2nd edition, 1980.

personal data
SURNAME	Joubert, Laurent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French physician, surgeon and Registrar of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Montpellier
DATE OF BIRTH	December 16, 1529
PLACE OF BIRTH	Valence
DATE OF DEATH	October 21, 1582
Place of death	Lombez

[1] Les Bibliothéques Françoises de La Croix du Maine et du Verdier [...]. Volume 2, Paris 1772, p. 31 ( Google Books ).

[2] Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Joubert, Laurent. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 705.

[3] Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Laurens, André du. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Encyclopedia of medical history. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 829.

[4] Chirurgia magna Guidonis de Gauliaco, nunc demum suae primae integritati restituta à Laurentio Jouberto. Lyon 1585; Reprint, ed. by Gundolf Keil, Darmstadt 1976; 2nd edition, 1980.