Nicolas-Gabriel Le Clerc

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Nicolas-Gabriel Le Clerc also Nicolas-Gabriel Clerc (born October 6, 1726 in Baume-les-Dames ( Franche-Comté ); † December 30, 1798 Versailles ) was a French doctor, historian and friend of the Enlightenment.

Live and act

He came from a family of doctors. After completing his medical training, he first became first doctor, premier médecin des armées du roi in the army of the Lower Rhine, armée du Bas-Rhin in Germany in 1757. In this role, he tried to improve the grievances he found in the administration of the military hospitals.

In 1759 he went at the request of Tsarina Elizabeth I and with the consent of his King Louis XV. to Russia . General Kirill Razumovsky chose him as a troop doctor and took him on his travels, which took them both to the great courts of Europe. He lived and worked in Hetmanat for almost a whole year . In 1762 he went back to France and became de Philippe II de Bourbon's personal physician .

Then in 1769 he returned to Russia . With the title of chief physician to the Grand Duke and director of the imperial cadet corps, he continued to practice as a doctor. During this second trip he collected the materials for a history of this Russian empire and returned to France in 1777 with many notes and maps .

He corresponded with the philosopher Denis Diderot and the Dutch publisher Marc-Michel Rey . He found his final resting place in Versailles, where he died in 1798 at the age of seventy-three. He was a member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg and the academies in Besançon and Rouen .

Works (selection)

  • Mémoire sur la goutte (1751)
  • Moyen de prévenir la contagion et d'y remédier. (published in Moscow under the title Histoire des maladies épidémiques qui ont régné en Ukraine ) (1760)
  • Essai sur les maladies contagieuses du bétail, avec les moyens de les prévenir & d'y remédier efficacement. N.-M. Tilliard, Paris (1766 or 1769)
  • Histoire naturelle de l'homme, considéré dans l'état de maladie, ou la Médecine rappelée à sa première simplicité. Paris (1767)
  • De la contagion, de sa nature, de ses effets, de ses progrès, et des moyens les plus sûrs pour la prévenir et pour y remédier. Saint Petersburg (1771)
  • Art debuter dans le monde avec succès. (1774)
  • Education morale et physique des deux sexes, pour les rendre aussi utiles aux autres qu'à eux-mêmes. Besançon (1777)
  • Histoire de la Russie ancienne et modern. Paris (1783 to 1794)

literature

  • Nicolas Gabriel Le Clerc; Johann Hermann Pfingsten: Mr. Clerc's philosophical-practical work on the art of medicine. Volume 1 Korn, (1786)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Louis-Gabriel Michaud: Biography universel, ancienne et modern. 1843, Volume IX, pp. 431-432
  2. ↑ Dictionnaire des journalistes (1600-1789). Georges Dula: Nicolas CLERC (1726-1798) n ° 181
  3. ↑ Lettre autographe, adressée au Docteur Nicolas-Gabriel Clerc, dated 15 June 1774, La Haye.
personal data
SURNAME Clerc, Nicolas-Gabriel Le
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clerc, Nicolas-Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Baume-les-Dame
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1798
Place of death Versailles