François Carlo Antommarchi

Francesco Antommarchi ( born July 5, 1780 Corsica; † April 3, 1838 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba ) was Napoleon Bonaparte's doctor on St. Helena.

Life

Antomarchi studied at the Medical College of Pisa and in 1812 prosector at the Hospital of Santa Maria in Florence. At the request of Cardinal Joseph Fesch Antomarmarchi in 1818 charged with the medical care of the Emperor Napoleon in his exile on St. Helena. Napoleon's refusal Antommarchis soon gave way to a familiarity, which then led to a grant in the amount of 100,000 francs.

After the death of the emperor declared Antommarchi that this did not die on stomach cancer, but in a ruling on the island fever, and refused to sign the autopsy report. Antommarchi then returned via England back to Italy. There Archduchess ( and former Queen of Spain ) Maria Louise of Bourbon -Parma refused to support him. For some time, Antommarchi settled in Paris, where he among other things, 1823 his work Mémoires ou les derniers moments de Napoléon was able to publish.

Politically interested Antommarchi went to Poland and took over in 1830 during the November Uprising in Warsaw the management of medical institutions, but soon returned to Paris. End of 1831 was Antommarchi regain a foothold in his native country, but failed because it " ... resembled his Italy in nothing " by his own admission. Later he went to the West Indies, and died there at the age of about 58 years, on 3 April 1838 in Santiago de Cuba. His final resting place he found in the local cemetery, where he his charity was set up for a memorial.

Works (selection)

• Napoleon I. shortly before his death ( " Mémoires ou les derniers moments de Napoléon "). Schmidt & Günther, Leipzig 1903 (2 vols )

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• Physician (19th century)
• Historical person (Italy )
• Person in the November Uprising (Poland )
• Born in 1780
• Died in 1838
• Man