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Jean-Nicolas Corvisart

1755 - 1821

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Jean-Nicolas Corvisart-Desmarets (15 February 1755 – 18 September 1821) was a French physician. Born in the village of Dricourt (now in Ardennes), Corvisart studied from 1777 at the Ecole de Médecine in Paris, later qualifying as docteur régent of the Faculté de Paris (1782). In 1797, Corvisart began to teach at the Collège de France, where he gained a reputation as an expert in cardiology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Nicolas Corvisart has received more than 50,624 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jean-Nicolas Corvisart is the 381st most popular physician (up from 415th in 2019), the 3,023rd most popular biography from France (up from 3,236th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart ranks 381 out of 726Before him are Johann Kremer, Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, Prospero Alpini, Andrew Taylor Still, Jim Yong Kim, and Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus. After him are Nicolae Paulescu, Karl Friedrich Burdach, Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet, Scribonius Largus, Hans Münch, and Petrus Camper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart ranks 29Before him are Infante Antonio Pascual of Spain, John Flaxman, John Marshall, Alemdar Mustafa Pasha, Gaspard de Prony, and Nicolas-Jacques Conté. After him are Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, Gilbert Stuart, Fausto Elhuyar, Anacharsis Cloots, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, and Sarah Siddons. Among people deceased in 1821, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart ranks 17Before him are Gregory V of Constantinople, Jean Rapp, Johann Peter Frank, Louis Claude Richard, Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Marie-Denise Villers. After him are José Miguel Carrera, Juan O'Donojú, Athanasios Diakos, Heinrich Kuhl, Fulgencio Yegros, and Anders Jahan Retzius.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart ranks 3,023 out of 6,770Before him are Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (1737), Marie-Denise Villers (1774), Jules Simon (1814), Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1724), Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762), and Jean Jouvenet (1644). After him are Sarah Kofman (1934), Isabelle of France (1225), Henri Laurens (1885), Claude Balbastre (1724), Benjamin Godard (1849), and Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609).

Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart ranks 43Before him are Antoine Louis (1723), Louis de Jaucourt (1704), Ernest Duchesne (1874), Jean Pierre Flourens (1794), Pierre Fauchard (1679), and Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (1742). After him are Charles Estienne (1504), Adrien Proust (1834), Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol (1786), Bernard de Jussieu (1699), Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (1730), and Guy Patin (1601).