Jean-Nicolas Corvisart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jean-Nicolas Corvisart

French physician

Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1755

Place of Birth: Dricourt, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 18-Sep-1821

Profession: physician, professor, anatomist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Jean-Nicolas Corvisart-Desmarets (15 February 1755 – 18 September 1821) was a French physician. Born in the French village of Dricourt (now in Ardennes) in 1755, Corvisart translated Leopold von Auenbrugg's Inventum Novum from Latin into French.
Corvisart was especially fond of Auenbrugg's use of chest percussion as a diagnostic tool, and began to perfect the technique.
He resurrected percussion during the French Revolution after it had fallen out of fashion.
Corvisart emphasized the study of symptoms and examined postmortem evidence as well.From 1777 he studied at the Ecole de médecine in Paris, later qualifying as docteur régent of the Faculté de Paris (1782).
In 1797, Corvisart began to teach at the Collège de France, where he gained a reputation as an expert in cardiology.
Among his students were René Laennec, Guillaume Dupuytren, Marie François Xavier Bichat and Pierre Bretonneau.In 1804, Corvisart became the primary physician of Napoléon Bonaparte, who he continued to attend to until Bonaparte's exile to St.
Helena Island, October 1815.
In 1820 he was made a member of Académie Nationale de Médecine.
He died the following year at Courbevoie.



Alternative names	François Pascal Simon Gérard
Description	French painter, aquarellist and illustrator
Date of birth/death	12 March 1770	11 January 1837
Location of birth/death	Rome	Paris
Work period	from 1782 until 1837 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1837-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	Paris (1782-1790), Rome (1790-1792), Paris (1792-1837)
Authority control	: Q163543 VIAF: 46776048 ISNI: 0000 0001 0780 7200 ULAN: 500115453 LCCN: n85158403 NLA: 36550602 WorldCat