Ferdinand-Jean Darier

Ferdinand -Jean Darier ( born April 26, 1856 in Budapest, † June 4, 1938 in Longpont -sur -Orge ) was a French dermatologist.

Life

Darier comes from a Huguenot family which had emigrated in the 17th century from France. Before his birth, his parents moved to Budapest when he was eight years old, to Geneva. Even as a child spoke Darier fluent in French, German and Hungarian. At fifteen he began in Geneva to study medicine, but switched in 1878 to Paris. After receiving his doctorate in 1885, he went to the laboratory of Louis- Antoine Ranvier. From 1909 to 1922 he was head of the medical department of the Hôpital Saint- Louis.

Work

Darier belonged next to Ernest Henri Besnier (1831-1909), Louis -Anne -Jean Brocq (1856-1928), Raymond Sabouraud (1864-1938), and Jean Alfred Fournier to the "Big 5" school of Paris. He was one of the pioneers of radiotherapy, chemotherapy, histopathology and vaccinations.

After Darier some eponyms are named:

• Darier's sign: a clinical sign in mast cell tumors
• Darier's disease ( dyskeratosis follicularis )
• Darier's Bowen 's disease ( Bowen's disease )
• Darier - Roussy sarcoid -