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Joffroy
Joffroy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alix Joffroy (1844–1908), French neurologist and psychiatrist remembered for describing Joffroy's sign *Pierre Joffroy (born 1929), French author, dramaturge and journalist who writes for Paris Match, Libération and L'Express See also *Joffroy's sign, clinical sign in which there is a lack of wrinkling of the forehead when a patient looks up with the head bent forwards {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alix Joffroy
Alix Joffroy (16 December 1844, in Stainville – 24 November 1908) was a French neurologist and psychiatrist remembered for describing Joffroy's sign. He studied in Paris, earning his doctorate in 1873, becoming médecin des hôpitaux in 1879 and agrégé in 1880. He worked at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital from 1885 and succeeded Benjamin Ball as professor of clinical psychiatry in 1893. Jean-Martin Charcot encouraged him to study neurology, and together they demonstrated atrophy of anterior horn cells in the spinal cord in poliomyelitis in 1869. See also * A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière ''A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière'' (french: Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière) is an 1887 group tableau portrait painted by the history and genre artist André Brouillet (1857–1914). The painting, one of the best-known in the hi ... External links * French neurologists French psychiatrists 1844 births 1908 deaths {{France-psychiatrist-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Joffroy
Maurice Marcel Weil (2 December 1922 – 4 October 2008), better known by the pen name Pierre Joffroy, was a French author, dramaturge and journalist who wrote for '' Paris Match'', ''Libération'' and ''L'Express''. Biography Maurice Marcel Weil was born in Hayange, France on 2 December 1922. As a writer, he adopted the pen name Pierre Joffrey. In France, he released numerous novels, stage plays and articles. For a period of 30 years he worked on a biography of Kurt Gerstein before he finally released the book ''A Spy for God'', which deals with Kurt Gerstein's story and the decades of the author's research. Within the framework of an interview with Deutschlandfunk Deutschlandfunk (DLF, ''Broadcast Germany'') is a public-broadcasting radio station in Germany, concentrating on news and current affairs. It is one of the four national radio channels produced by Deutschlandradio. History Broadcasting in the ...(DLF) the French author declared, that he considered Kurt G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
