Mélanie Hahnemann, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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French homeopathic physician
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About Mélanie Hahnemann
- Marie Mélanie d'Hervilly Gohier Hahnemann (2 February 1800 – May 1878), was a French homeopathic physician, married in 1835 to Samuel Hahnemann.
- She was the first female homeopathic physician. Mélanie d'Hervilly was reportedly a member of a noble family, but because of domestic violence she lived in the family of her art teacher Guillaume Guillon-Lethière in Paris from 1815 and made a living by selling her paintings.
- She received the surname Gohier as the posthumously adopted daughter of Louis-Jérôme Gohier, who had been president of the French Directory until 9 November 1799 (18 Brumaire VIII), when it was overthrown by Napoleon in the coup of 18 Brumaire.
- When he died in 1830 he named the then 30-year-old Mélanie d'Hervilly, 54 years younger, as his heir.
- She buried Gohier in Montmartre cemetery, and then two years later her foster-father the painter Lethière beside him.During the cholera epidemic of Paris in 1832, she became interested in homeopathy.
- In 1834, she visited Samuel Hahnemann, and the year after they married and moved to Paris, where they opened a clinic.
- She was his student and assistant and soon an independent homeopathist.
- She was given a diploma from Allentown Academy of The Homeopathic Healing Art, co-founded by John Helfrich (1795–1852) in Allentown, Pennsylvania. At the death of Samuel Hahnemann, she was entrusted with his clinic and the manuscript of his latest work, Organon.
- She continued with the practice, but in 1847, she was put on trial and found guilty of illegal practice.
- She continued to practice and was granted a medical license in 1872.
- She was a controversial person as both a woman physician and a woman homeopath.She is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
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