Marcel Jérôme Rigollot
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
Web links
- Literature by and about Marcel Jérôme Rigollot in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Biography on the website of the Institut nationale d´histoire de l´art .
- Biography on the website of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques .
- Obituary by Jean-Baptiste-Flavien Tavernier, A. Caron (Amiens), 1855.
- Biography of the hommes célèbres
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Rigollot, Marcel Jérôme |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rigollot, Marcel |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French doctor and scientist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1786 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Doullens |
DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1854 |
Place of death | Amiens |