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Antoine Louis

1723 - 1792

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Antoine Louis (French: [ɑ̃twan lwi]; 13 February 1723, Metz – 20 May 1792) was an 18th-century French surgeon and physiologist. He was originally trained in medicine by his father, a sergeant major at a local military hospital. As a young man he moved to Paris, where he served as gagnant-maîtrise at the Salpêtrière. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine Louis has received more than 145,921 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Antoine Louis is the 310th most popular physician (down from 296th in 2019), the 2,522nd most popular biography from France (down from 2,298th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Antoine Louis ranks 310 out of 502Before him are Aletta Jacobs, Leopold Auenbrugger, Hinrich Lichtenstein, Randy Schekman, George Huntington, and Dorothea Erxleben. After him are Johann Conrad Dippel, Mondino de Luzzi, Thomas Szasz, Ernest Duchesne, William Bates, and Nicolae Paulescu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Antoine Louis ranks 15Before him are Johann Bernhard Basedow, Jean-François Marmontel, Prithvi Narayan Shah, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, Tobias Mayer, and Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt. After him are Mir Taqi Mir, Princess Mary of Great Britain, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, John Byron, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, and William Chambers. Among people deceased in 1792, Antoine Louis ranks 21Before him are Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Legall de Kermeur, Jacques Cazotte, Denis Fonvizin, Antonio Rosetti, and John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute. After him are Maximilian Hell, Guillaume Le Gentil, John Paul Jones, Johann Andreas Stein, John Smeaton, and Yazid of Morocco.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Louis ranks 2,522 out of 6,011Before him are Claude Autant-Lara (1901), Tarrare (1772), Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle (1710), Louis Feuillade (1873), Madeleine Béjart (1615), and Julie Billiart (1751). After him are Hélène Carrère d'Encausse (1929), Nadine Trintignant (1934), Camille Chautemps (1885), Ado of Vienne (800), Edgar Faure (1908), and Pierre Brasseur (1905).

Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Antoine Louis ranks 36Before him are Édouard Séguin (1812), Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853), Guillaume Dupuytren (1777), Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757), Edmond Locard (1877), and Jean-Baptiste Denys (1643). After him are Ernest Duchesne (1874), Pierre Fauchard (1679), Louis de Jaucourt (1704), Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788), Jean Pierre Flourens (1794), and Adrien Proust (1834).