Antoine Porot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Antoine Porot

French psychiatrist

Date of Birth: 20-May-1876

Place of Birth: Chalon-sur-Saône, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1965

Profession: psychiatrist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Antoine Porot, (1876 (Chalone-sur-Saône) - 1965) was a French psychiatrist.
He founded what was known as the Algiers School of psychiatry, which attempted to justify the inherent racism in the French colonial mission in Algiers on the basis that Algerians, i.e.
the Muslim non-ethnically French inhabitants, were biologically inferior.
Frantz Fanon discusses his theories and the impact on Algerian colonial society in his book, The Wretched of the Earth. Porot had a son, Maurice Porot (born 1912), who followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a psychiatrist, teaching at Alger (1958-1962) then at Clermont-Ferrand (1965-1982).