Jean Noël Hallé

Jean Noël Hallé ( born January 2, 1754 Paris, † February 11, 1822 in ) was a French physician, hygienist and epidemiologist.

Life and work

His father was the painter, graphic artist and engraver Noël Hallé (1711-1781), his mother was Françoise " Geneviève " Lorry ( 1733-1807 ). He had a sister Catherine Charlotte Hallé ( 1755-1841 ).

Hallé himself was Professor of Medicine and Health at the École de santé and thereafter he worked as a professor of public health at the Collège de France. He was a member of the Faculté de médecine de Paris, in 1795 he was elected to the Académie des sciences, becoming its President in 1813. He was also the personal physician to Napoleon Bonaparte. He was co-editor of the 1813 Code of médicaments, ou Pharmacopée française, the French Pharmacopoeia. Hallé made ​​important contributions to the Dictionnaire des Sciences médicales.

On April 8, 1785, he married Marie Geneviève in Paris Marchand d' Epinay ( 1767-1832 ). The couple had two daughters and a son, Françoise Geneviève Louise (1786-1789), Augustine Françoise Marie (1789 -ca. 1876) and Charles Louis Noël Hallé ( 1797-1861 ). In 1790, the Hallé and his staff Boncerf built a log of the miasma of Paris by a certain extent enlisted the olfactory impressions on a map. He also conducted research into breast cancer through research on the effects of camphor and was a great advocate of vaccination. In 1794 he defended Antoine Lavoisier when he had to answer national treason before the convention.

He died as a result of an operation on a bladder stone, which by Pierre -Augustin Beclard (1785-1825) was surgically removed by lithotomy. He was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris ( Division 10).

Hallé was a pioneer of hygienic measures in France and a major initiator to disseminate hygiene knowledge among the population.

Works (selection)

• Almanac impériaux, Testu et Cie Imprimeurs, Paris 1805-1813.
• Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. Jean Noël Hallé, Librairie De Bure frères, Paris 1823.
• Air - Air des hôpitaux de terre et de mer. In: Encyclopaedia méthodique Médecine. Paris 1787.