Auguste Ambroise Tardieu
Auguste Ambroise Tardieu ( born March 10, 1818 in Paris, † 12 January 1879 in Paris) was a French forensic pathologist.
In 1843 he received his doctorate of medicine at the Faculté de Médecine of Paris. He was President of the French Académie nationale de Médecine and Head of the School of Medicine and Professor of Medicine at the University of Paris.
Battered the child syndrome is also known as Tardieu 's syndrome. His book Etude Médico- Legal Metrology sur les assassination aux Moeurs (1857 ) dealt with child abuse.