Claude Berger (January 20, 1679, Paris – May 22, 1712, Passy) was a French medical doctor and chemist.[1]
Biography
editHe was a medical doctor from the Faculty of Paris and received his degree in medicine in 1669, after presenting a thesis under the presidency of Guy-Crescent Fagon, first physician to the king, against the use of tobacco.[2] Claude Berger was related to Fagon, but the latter only knew him during this thesis. Fagon subsequently granted him his friendship and protection. He worked on the study of plants with Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, who appreciated him and recruited him as his pupil at the Royal Academy of Sciences. Berger joined the Academy on February 14, 1699.
After various arrangements inside the academy, he became a pupil of Guillaume Homberg on January 27, 1700. Having been received as a doctor of medicine, he was obliged to give lessons at the Schools of Paris for two years, where he was quite successful. He visited the sick with his father and replaced him for the last two years of his father’s life, from 1703.[3] He succeeded his father after his death and was appointed doctor regent, in 1705. In 1708 he obtained the position of medical adviser to the king for 22,000 pounds, which required him to be present at Versailles the first quarter of each year.[4]
References
edit- ^ Sturdy, David J. (1995). Science and Social Status: The Members of the Academie Des Sciences 1666-1750. Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 978-0-85115-395-7.
- ^ Launay, Françoise; Boussuge, Emmanuel (2013-12-10). "Les Berger et les Volland en famille rue des Vieux-Augustins". Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie (in French) (48): 97–122. doi:10.4000/rde.5034. ISSN 0769-0886.
- ^ Relation de plusieurs actions abominables de Claude Berger, boucher de Ville-franche, avec la Sentence du Presidial de Lyon, & a esté condamné a estre roué vif (in French). 1676.
- ^ "Les membres du passé dont le nom commence par B | Liste des membres depuis la création de l'Académie des sciences | Membres | Nous connaître". archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 2022-06-28.
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