Prof Pierre Sue
FRSE
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(28 December 1739 – 28 March 1816) was a
French
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anatomist, librarian and physician.
Life
He was born on 28 December 1739 the son of
Jean-Joseph Sue
Prof Jean-Joseph Sue FRS FRSE (20 April 1710 – 15 December 1792) was a French surgeon and anatomist.
Life
He was born at La Colle-sur-Loup on 20 April 1710 the son of Pierre Jean Sue (d.1714) and his wife, Marguerite Bellisime (d.1748).
Jean-J ...
and his wife, Jeanne Angelique Martin de Martin. His younger brother was
Jean-Joseph Sue (1760-1830)
Prof Jean-Joseph Sue FRS FRSE (20 April 1710 – 15 December 1792) was a French surgeon and anatomist.
Life
He was born at La Colle-sur-Loup on 20 April 1710 the son of Pierre Jean Sue (d.1714) and his wife, Marguerite Bellisime (d.1748).
Jean-J ...
.
He qualified as a surgeon in 1763. In 1767 he became a Professor of Medicine in
Paris
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. He was in this position through the French Revolution but in 1794 moved to the more sedate role of Librarian to the university.
In 1784 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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. His proposers were
Alexander Monro (secundus)
Alexander Monro of Craiglockhart and Cockburn (22 May 1733 – 2 October 1817) was a Scottish anatomist, physician and medical educator. He is typically known as or Junior to distinguish him as the second of three generations of physicians of ...
,
Andrew Duncan, the elder
Andrew Duncan, the elder (17 October 1744 – 5 July 1828) FRSE FRCPE FSA (Scot) was a Scottish physician and professor at the University of Edinburgh. He was joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Life
Duncan was the second son of An ...
and
James Gregory.
He died on 28 March 1816.
Publications
*''Eloge de Louis'' (Elegy to Louis) (1792)
*''The History of Galvanism'' (1805)
References
French librarians
French surgeons
1816 deaths
18th-century French physicians
1739 births
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