Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière

French inventor

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1803

Place of Birth: Cerniat, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

Date of Death: 28-Apr-1876

Profession: engineer, entrepreneur, instrument maker

Nationality: Switzerland, France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière (March 19, 1803 – April 28, 1876) was a Swiss-born French manufacturer of surgical instruments. Charrière was born in Cerniat, in the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.
He moved to Paris at age 13, and was apprenticed to a manufacturer of knives.
In 1820 he founded a company manufacturing surgical instruments, which quickly grew to 400 employees by around 1840, and was world-famous by his death.
He became a naturalized French citizen in 1843. He developed and improved a number of instruments, especially hypodermic needles and catheters; the French catheter scale is named after his work.
Several of his apprentices also became well-known instrument makers, including Georges-Guillaume-Amatus Lüer, Louis-Joseph Mathieu, and Adolphe Collin in Paris; Josef Leiter in Vienna; and Camillus Nyrop in Copenhagen. He was inducted into the Legion of Honour in 1851, and died in 1876 in Paris.