WRITER

Jean Astruc

1684 - 1766

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Jean Astruc (19 March 1684, in Sauve, France – 5 May 1766, in Paris) was a professor of medicine in France at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of the Bible. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Astruc has received more than 67,172 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Astruc is the 3,060th most popular writer (down from 2,370th in 2019), the 3,208th most popular biography from France (down from 2,596th in 2019) and the 402nd most popular French Writer.

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  • 20

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  • 6.06

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  • 2.17

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Notable Works

Traité des maladies des femmes
Catalogs, Diseases, Early works to 1800
1743
De morbis venereis libri novem
Early works to 1800, Sexually transmitted diseases, Venereal diseases
1740
De morbis venereis
Sexually transmitted diseases, Early works to 1800, Bio-bibliography
1736
Memoires pour l'histoire naturelle de la province de Languedoc
1737
A general and compleat treatise on all the diseases incident to children from their birth to the age of fifteen
Children, Diseases, Early works to 1800
1746
L' art d'accoucher réduit a ses principes
Early works to 1800, Midwives, Obstetrics
1766

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jean Astruc ranks 3,060 out of 7,302. Before him are Ibn Zaydún, Gregory Corso, Ahmadou Kourouma, José Donoso, Ricardo Piglia, and Shulamith Firestone. After him are Félix Fénéon, Saib Tabrizi, Liviu Rebreanu, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi, and Charles-Louis Havas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1684, Jean Astruc ranks 17. Before him are Kimpa Vita, Edward Vernon, Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle, Francesco Manfredini, and Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg. After him are Matthias Bel, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Matthias Braun, and Johann Jacob Dillenius. Among people deceased in 1766, Jean Astruc ranks 14. Before him are Leopold Joseph von Daun, Thomas Abbt, Johann Christoph Gottsched, Marie Victoire de Noailles, François-Jean de la Barre, and Adrien Maurice de Noailles. After him are Dominikus Zimmermann, Jacques Aved, Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Jane Colden, and Ivan Polzunov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Astruc ranks 3,208 out of 6,770. Before him are Tony Robert-Fleury (1837), Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux (1767), Auguste Franchomme (1808), Ingelger (900), Joseph de Villèle (1773), and André Leducq (1904). After him are Pierre Gaveaux (1761), Michel Chevalier (1806), Paul Poupard (1930), Victor Schœlcher (1804), Anne of Burgundy (1404), and Charles-Louis Havas (1783).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jean Astruc ranks 402. Before him are Vincent Voiture (1597), Thomas of Britain (1200), Michel Ocelot (1943), Henri Meilhac (1831), Charles Blanc (1813), and Joseph Joffo (1931). After him are Charles-Louis Havas (1783), Charles-Louis Philippe (1874), Sylvain Maréchal (1750), Jean-Christophe Grangé (1961), Antoine de Rivarol (1753), and Charles de Saint-Évremond (1613).

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