Louis le Pecq de la Clôture

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Louis Lépecq de la Clôture (1736–1804)

Louis le Pecq de la Clôture, also Louis Lépecq (born July 12, 1736 in Caen , † November 5, 1804 in St.Pierre de Azif ) was a French doctor and professor of surgery .

He was the son of a doctor and received his education in Caen, where he also received his doctorate and became a professor of medicine. He went to Rouen in 1768 , where he was responsible for the hospital and prisons, among other things. Under Louis XVI. in 1781 he even received the nobility elevation. In 1782 he also became president of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen . For political reasons he later retired to his estate at St. Pierre de Azif , where he also died. He was considered one of the best doctors of the 18th century.

family

He married Marie Claude Geneviève Le Bon on January 4, 1780 in Rouen . The couple had the following children:

  • Aimée Claudine Antoinette Le Pecq de La Clôture († 1831) ∞ Charles Aimé Marie du Bouillonney (1749–1805)
  • Louise Victoire Pauline Le Pecq de La Clôture ∞ Guillaume François Boistard-Premagny (* 1776)

Works

  • Instructions for doctors to observe epidemic diseases according to Hippocratic principles, digitalisat
  • Medicinal topography of the whole of Normandy
  • Lépecq de la Clôture, Louis: Collection of Observations on Epidemic Diseases and Constitutions . Rouen 1778 ( digitized version of the original - French: Collection d'observations sur les maladies et constitutions épidemiques . Several volumes).

literature

  • Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker : History of modern medicine , p. 554, digitized
  • Biography universelle ancienne et Moderne ou histoire par ordre alphabétique, de la vie privée et publique de tous les hommes qui se sont distingués par leurs écrits, leurs actions, leurs talents (French), p. 212, digitized

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personal data
SURNAME Le Pecq de la Clôture, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lépecq, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor and professor of surgery
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Caen
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1804
Place of death St Pierre de Azif