Adrien Proust, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Adrien Proust

Marcel Proust's father

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1834

Place of Birth: Illiers-Combray, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Date of Death: 26-Nov-1903

Profession: physician, university teacher, pathologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Adrien Achille Proust (18 March 1834 – 26 November 1903) was a French epidemiologist and hygienist.
He was the father of novelist Marcel Proust and doctor Robert Proust.He studied medicine in Paris, where in 1862 he obtained his medical doctorate.
Beginning in 1863 he worked as chef de clinique, and in 1866 earned his agrégation with the thesis Des différentes formes de ramollissement du cerveau (On different forms of softening of the brain).
In 1869 he was sent on a mission to Russia and Persia in order to conduct cholera research – a journey in which, he also visited Athens, Constantinople, Messina and several locations in Germany.He was a professor of hygiene at the faculty of medicine in Paris, and chief physician at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris.
He was a member of the Comité d'Hygiène publique de France and of the Académie de médecine (from 1879), serving as its secretary from 1883 to 1888.Adrien Proust is mentioned in Love in the Time of Cholera, a 1985 novel by Gabriel García Márquez.



Alternative names	Paul Tournachon Nadar
Description	French photographer son of Félix Tournachon (Nadar)
Date of birth/death	8 February 1856	1 September 1939
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work location	Paris (1873–1939)
Authority control	: Q4141511 VIAF: 83007 ISNI: 0000 0001 0861 2552 ULAN: 500027123 LCCN: n78008681 Open Library: OL793778A WorldCat