Marcel Jérôme Rigollot

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Marcel Jérôme Rigollot (born September 30, 1786 in Doullens , † December 29, 1854 in Amiens ) was a French doctor and scientist .

Life

After attending school in Amiens, Rigollot studied medicine in Paris from 1803 , where he assisted in a military hospital alongside his studies. Following his doctorate in 1809, he returned to Amiens and practiced there as a doctor. In 1813 Rigollot was drafted into the Grande Armée , where he served as a first-class military doctor in Görlitz , Waldheim and Dresden, among others . After the French troops had to withdraw as a result of the Battle of Leipzig , Rigollot was deployed in Mainz , where a catastrophic typhus epidemic was raging at the time . He then came back to Amiens through military medical assignments in Metz , Château-Thierry and Meaux .

In Amiens he became director and professor at the local medical institute and vice-president of the local health council in 1820. In 1831 he was elected to the Council of Amiens. Rigollot was a patron of the arts and literature in his hometown and in 1836 was a co-founder of the Somme Archaeological Society. He could Napoleon III. convince them to transfer the property on which the Musée de Picardie was later built.

Rigollot was a corresponding member of the Académie nationale de Médecine and a member of the Académie d'Arras . In 1849 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor .

literature

  • A. Bouthors, Discours […] au nom de la Société des antiquaires de Picardie [à l'occasion des funérailles de M. Rigollot] , Bulletins de la Société des antiquaires de Picardie, t. V, 1853-1855, p. 251-253.
  • JG, Obsèques de M. le docteur Rigollot , Bulletins de la Société des antiquaires de Picardie, t. V, 1853-1855, p. 249-251.
  • G. Rembault, Notice nécrologique de M. le docteur Rigollot , Bulletins de la Société des antiquaires de Picardie, t. V, 1853-1855, p. 253-256.
  • Bulletin de la Société des antiquaires de Picardie Tome 5 - 1853-54-55

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