Désiré-Magloire Bourneville

Désiré - Magloire Bourneville ( born October 20, 1840 in Garencières (Eure), † May 28, 1909 in Paris) was a French neurologist at the time of the Third Republic.

He studied medicine in Paris and worked as an assistant physician at the Salpêtrière and Bicêtre Hospital of. In 1866, he participated as a volunteer at medical interventions during a severe cholera epidemic in Amiens. In the German -Prussian War 1870/71 he was employed as a surgeon and a medical officer. As in the train of the Paris Commune in 1871, revolutionaries wanted to execute some wounded prisoners to Bourneville sat for this one and saved several lives. In the 1870s, he was both a member of the French Parliament and of the city council of Paris. He entered in these functions for health care reforms.

Between 1879 and 1905 Bourneville was a doctor at the Children's Hospital Bicêtre - Hôpital. He founded in Paris a day school for the mentally retarded special education and affected by epilepsy children.

From Bourneville comes the first description of the named after him and John James Pringle tuberous sclerosis.