Louis-René Villermé

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Louis-René Villermé

Louis-René Villermé (born May 10, 1782 in Paris ; †  November 16, 1863 there ) was a French doctor, hygienist and epidemiologist .

Life

Villermé studied medicine in Paris from 1801 and was a military surgeon under Napoléon Bonaparte from 1804 to 1814 . He received his doctorate in 1814. After a short time as a general practitioner in Paris, he turned back to scientific research. In 1832 he became a state disease doctor .

With its statistically processed, medical-demographic studies, Villermé did pioneering work for modern occupational and social hygiene. He noticed connections between body measurements on the one hand and biological and socio-economic factors on the other. He observed that social background and the job exercised have an influence on people's life expectancy. People who work in wealthy craft trades, e.g. B. silversmiths or typesetters have a longer life expectancy than shoemakers, bricklayers or day laborers.

In 1829 he was a co-founder of the then leading hygiene magazine "Annales d'hygiène publique et de médecine légale". From 1832 he was a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques . In 1856 he was elected a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

He denounced the conditions in the foundling houses and even suggested that signs be put up with the inscription: "Here children are allowed to die at state expense."

Works

  • Tableau de l'État physique et moral des ouvriers employés dans les manufactures de coton, de laine et de soie . Études & Documentations Internationales, Paris 1989 (reprint of the Paris 1840 edition; English version online )
  • Les associations ouvrières . Pagnerre, Paris 1849.
  • Les cités ouvrières. 1850
  • The accidents produits dans the ateliers par les appareils mécaniques. 1858

literature

  • Lexicon of natural scientists. Astronomers, biologists, chemists, geologists, medical professionals, physicists . Directmedia Publications, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-485-5 (1 CD-ROM).
  • Barbarian I. Tshisuaka: Villermé, Louis René. 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. 1443 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ J [ohann Paul]: General Archive for the Entire Political Science, Legislation and State Administration, with the sole exception of politics and with special consideration of Germany's current industrial and commercial relationships for German federal states , 1st volume, 1st issue, Verlag Heinrich Wilmans, Frankfurt a. M. 1825.
personal data
SURNAME Villermé, Louis-René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French hygienist
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1863
Place of death Paris