Paul-André Foucault

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Paul-André Foucault (born July 25, 1893 in Fontainebleau , † September 14, 1959 ) was a French medic .

Life

Grave of Paul-André Foucault in the cemetery of Vendeuvre-du-Poitou, on the right the grave of his wife and Michel Foucault

Foucault was the son of Marie Sophie Louise de Cuvillon and the doctor Paul-Victor Foucault.

He worked as a surgeon in Poitiers and as a professor of anatomy at the École de médecine in the same city.

In 1924 he married Anne-Marie Malapert, daughter of a surgeon; with her he had three children, including Michel Foucault .

He was awarded the Croix de guerre .

Luc Montagnier , the Nobel laureate in medicine, described him as a “brilliant anatomist”.

Fonts (selection)

  • Planches coloriées d'anatomie. Membre supérieur. Librairie des sciences et des arts, Paris 1945, OCLC 14744664

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Daniel Defert : Chronology. In: Christopher Falzon, Timothy O'Leary, Jana Sawicki (eds.): A Companion to Foucault. (= Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Volume 51). John Wiley & Sons , 2013, ISBN 978-1-118-32550-6 , p. 11.
  2. ↑ Date of death according to https://gw.geneanet.org/pierfit?lang=en&n=foucault&oc=0&p=paul+andre
personal data
SURNAME Foucault, Paul-André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French surgeon and university professor of anatomy
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Fontainebleau
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1959