Siméon de Provanchères

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Siméon de Provanchères (* around 1552 in Langres ; † July 1617 in Sens or Paris ) was a French medic.

Siméon de Provanchères came from a wealthy family. He studied in Montpellier , then traveled to Languedoc and Provence and then settled in Paris . After the death of his father, he moved to Sens, where he married Jeane Belot. The connection resulted in a daughter who, however, died at the age of seven. Siméon de Provanchères rose to be royal doctor after proving himself during an epidemic in Sens. His works include the translation of a Latin text about the stone child of Sens , which appeared under the title Histoire d'un enfant pétrifié or Le prodigieux enfant pétrifié de la ville de Sens, avec une figure du dit prodige 1582, the translation Quatrains de Pitrac and Aphorismorum Hippocratis enarratio poetica and Histoire de l'inappétence d'un enfant de Vauprofonde, près Sens, de son désistement de boire et de manger, quatre ans onze mois, et de sa mort from 1616. Quinquième discours apologétique appeared in the year of his death d'un enfant de Vauprofonde pour les causes surnaturelles de son inappétence .

literature

  • Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Biographie médicale , Volume 6, p. 509
  • Letillois de Mézières, Biographie générale des Champenois célèbres , Paris 1836, p. 119
  • The Monthly Magazine XXVIII, Part II, 1809, pp. 703 f.
  • Helen King, Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynecology , Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2007, ISBN 978-0754653967 , p. 120

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The spelling Siméon de Provanchère can also be found.
  2. ↑ According to a biographical outline in the Monthly Magazine from 1809, he traveled to Paris at an old age, where he is said to have died after a three-day illness. It can also be read in the Dictionnaire des sciences médicales . According to Letillois de Mézières, however, he died in Sens.
  3. ↑ http://194.254.96.52/main.php?key=ZnVsbHw0NzY2N3gwNnx8
personal data
SURNAME Provanchères, Siméon de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Provanchère, Siméon de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French medic
DATE OF BIRTH around 1552
PLACE OF BIRTH Langres
DATE OF DEATH July 1617
Place of death Sens or Paris