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Paul Gachet

1828 - 1909

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Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (30 July 1828 – 9 January 1909) was a French physician most famous for treating the painter Vincent van Gogh during his last weeks in Auvers-sur-Oise. Gachet was a great supporter of artists and the Impressionist movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Gachet has received more than 289,318 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Paul Gachet is the 204th most popular physician (up from 417th in 2019), the 1,514th most popular biography from France (down from 1,295th in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Physician.

Paul Gachet was a French physician and painter who was a close friend of Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh was often treated by Gachet for mental illness and physical conditions. Van Gogh died in 1890, and Gachet died in 1909.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Paul Gachet ranks 204 out of 502. Before him are Trota of Salerno, Bernard Kouchner, Franciscus Sylvius, David H. Hubel, Regnier de Graaf, and Maurice Bucaille. After him are Andrea Cesalpino, Johann Weyer, Guy de Chauliac, Leonhart Fuchs, Nicolaes Tulp, and Norman Bethune.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Paul Gachet ranks 19. Before him are Albert Marth, Albert of Saxony, John Langdon Down, Ferdinand Cohn, Joseph Swan, and Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia. After him are Alexander Butlerov, Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Edmond François Valentin About, Iosif Gurko, and Friedrich Albert Lange. Among people deceased in 1909, Paul Gachet ranks 23. Before him are Red Cloud, Emil Erlenmeyer, Francisco Ferrer, Besarion Jughashvili, Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and Princess Marie of Orléans. After him are Abdul Karim, Simon Newcomb, Arnold Janssen, George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon, Ludwig Gumplowicz, and Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Gachet ranks 1,514 out of 6,011. Before him are Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774), Élie Cartan (1869), Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (1220), Bernard de Tremelay (1100), Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (1337), and Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine (953). After him are Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo (1847), Clément Marot (1495), Antoine Destutt de Tracy (1754), Paul Cornu (1881), Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817), and Monique Wittig (1935).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Paul Gachet ranks 24. Before him are Albert Calmette (1863), Dominique Jean Larrey (1766), Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857), Marcel Petiot (1897), Bernard Kouchner (1939), and Maurice Bucaille (1920). After him are Guy de Chauliac (1300), Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757), Duchenne de Boulogne (1806), Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772), François Magendie (1783), and Édouard Séguin (1812).

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