Auger Ferrier (1512 or 1513, Toulouse - 1588) - French doctor, astrologer , scientific writer.
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Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 notes
- 3 Literature
- 4 References
Biography
Auger Ferrier was born in the family of a surgeon, from childhood had an interest in science, so he subsequently studied law, medicine and mathematics in Toulouse , as well as then fashionable forensic astrology. In 1540 he received a doctorate in medicine in Montpellier under the leadership of Jean Schyron, after which he moved to Paris, where he soon became known among the townspeople due to his good nature and knowledge. Thanks to his acquaintance with soon managed to become the court physician of Queen Catherine de Medici , who then brought him along to Rome, where he also gained fame and enjoyed a good reputation, as he had done in Paris and Montpellier; many famous doctors of France and Italy of that time consulted with him.
Returning to France, Ferrier returned to medical practice in Toulouse. He became famous for his fierce polemic with Jean Boden over the last treatise (Paris, 1576), and even wrote the pamphlet Warning to him. He died of intestinal inflammation, working on another pamphlet to his opponent.
Major works: “Liber de somniis” (Leiden, 1549); "De pudendagra, lue hispanica, libri duo" (Toulouse, 1553) and "Vera methodus medendi" (1557).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ Swartz A. Open Library - 2007.
Literature
- Ferrier, Auger // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Links
- Ferrier, Auger // Biographie universelle. - 1815. - P.439.