Michel Lévy
Michel Lévy (born September 28, 1809 in Strasbourg ; died March 19, 1872 in Paris ) was an important French physician ( hygienist ) and general practitioner .
Life
Lévy was born the son of a simple cloth merchant in Strasbourg. In 1830 he passed the entrance exam for the military training hospital in Strasbourg. After he had participated as a doctor in training in the Morea expedition and the siege of Antwerp , he received his doctorate in 1834. In 1836 he received the chair of hygiene and a medical chair at the military hospital Val-de-Grâce . In 1850 he was elected to the Académie Royale de Médecine , of which he was president in 1857. In 1851 Lévy was appointed medical inspector with the rank of general, making him the only Jewish general in the Second Empire . During his participation in the Crimean War (1853–1856), as a hygienist and doctor, he achieved remarkable success in the fight against cholera . On his return to France in 1856, he was appointed director of the Val-de-Grâce military hospital. He organized the university according to principles that are still relevant and valid today. The hôpital Michel-Lévy in Marseille bore his name until it was demolished in the 1990s.
His son Auguste Michel-Lévy was a well-known geologist and mineralogist.
Works (selection)
- Traite d'Hygiene publique et privée. Paris 1843–45, 5th ed. 1869 (two volumes).
- De la vitalité de la race juive en Europe. Paris 1866.
Literature (selection)
- Wininger IV, 74
- Zosa Szajkowski : Jews and the French Revolutions of 1789, 1830 and 1848. Ktav Publishing House, New York 1970, ISBN 0-87-068000-5 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lévy, Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French general doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1809 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1872 |
| Place of death | Paris |