François Naville, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

François Naville

Swiss physician (1883-1968)

Date of Birth: 14-Jun-1883

Place of Birth: Neuchâtel, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Date of Death: 03-Apr-1968

Profession: physician, psychiatrist, neurologist

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

François Naville (14 June 1883 – 3 April 1968) was a Swiss physician, director of the medico-legal Institute of the University of Geneva, the only truly neutral expert in the international Katyn Commission investigating the Soviet Katyn massacre of some 22,000 Polish prisoners of war, mostly Polish Army officers, arrested and imprisoned in the course of the Soviet and German invasion of Poland.
Their bodies were discovered in a series of large mass graves in the forest near Smolensk in Russia following the Nazi German Operation Barbarossa.