Antoine-Athanase Royer-Collard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French psychiatrist
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Place of Birth: Sompuis, Grand Est, France
About Antoine-Athanase Royer-Collard
- Antoine-Athanase Royer-Collard (7 February 1768 – 27 November 1825) was a French physician and psychiatrist.
- He was a younger brother to philosopher Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard (1763–1845).Royer-Collard was born in Sompuis.
- He studied medicine in Paris, and in 1802 received his doctorate with a dissertation on amenorrhea ("Essai sur l'aménorrhée, ou suppression du flux menstruel").
- In 1806 he was named chief physician at the Charenton mental asylum, and in 1816 became a professor of forensic medicine at the University of Paris.
- In 1819 he was appointed to the first chair of médecine mentale.
- Among his better known students were Antoine Laurent Bayle and Louis-Florentin Calmeil.In 1803 he founded the periodical "Bibliothèque médicale".
- In 1820 he was elected a member of the Académie de médecine.
- After his death at Paris in 1825, his position at the Charenton was filled by Jean-Etienne-Dominique Esquirol.One of his famous patients at the Charenton was Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (1740–1814), better known as Marquis de Sade, who spent the last eleven years of his life incarcerated at the asylum.
- Royer-Collard protested against de Sade's imprisonment at the Charenton, believing him to be sane, and asked that he be placed in a conventional prison.
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