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Ambroise Paré

1510 - 1590

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Ambroise Paré (French: [ɑ̃bʁwaz paʁe]; c. 1510 – 20 December 1590) was a French barber surgeon who served in that role for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. He is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology and a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine, especially in the treatment of wounds. He was also an anatomist, invented several surgical instruments, and was a member of the Parisian barber surgeon guild. In his personal notes about the care he delivered to Captain Rat, in the Piémont campaign (1537–1538), Paré wrote: Je le pansai, Dieu le guérit ("I bandaged him and God healed him"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ambroise Paré has received more than 637,423 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Ambroise Paré is the 43rd most popular physician (down from 40th in 2019), the 476th most popular biography from France (down from 406th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Physician.

Ambroise Paré was a French surgeon during the Renaissance who is most famous for his surgical techniques and his contributions to the field of surgery.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Ambroise Paré ranks 43 out of 726. Before him are Thutmose IV, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, Polycarp, Virginia Apgar, and Emil Kraepelin. After him are Hua Tuo, Samuel Hahnemann, Otto Heinrich Warburg, Christiaan Eijkman, Hilary of Poitiers, and Otto Fritz Meyerhof.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1510, Ambroise Paré ranks 1. After him are Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence, Mikael Agricola, Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Renée of France, Jacopo Bassano, Aloysius Lilius, François Clouet, Gonzalo Pizarro, Gracia Mendes Nasi, Elena Glinskaya, and Túpac Huallpa. Among people deceased in 1590, Ambroise Paré ranks 4. Before him are Pope Urban VII, Pope Sixtus V, and Charles II, Archduke of Austria. After him are Archduchess Anna of Austria, Christina of Denmark, Gioseffo Zarlino, Bernardino de Sahagún, Francis Walsingham, Charles de Bourbon, Marietta Robusti, and Frans Hogenberg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Ambroise Paré ranks 476 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824), Alfred Kastler (1902), René Guénon (1886), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636), and Alfred de Musset (1810). After him are Yves Klein (1928), Charles-Henri Sanson (1739), Adolphe Adam (1803), Pierre Richard (1934), Carus (230), and Patrick Modiano (1945).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Ambroise Paré ranks 7. Before him are Albert Schweitzer (1875), Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738), Claude Bernard (1813), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), Alexis Carrel (1873), and Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845). After him are Hilary of Poitiers (315), René Laennec (1781), Philippe Pinel (1745), Karl Brandt (1904), Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), and Charles Nicolle (1866).

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