François Naville

François Naville ( born June 14, 1883 in Neuchâtel, † April 3, 1968 in Geneva) was a Swiss physician.

Life

Naville studied medicine in Geneva and Paris and graduated in 1907 with the state exam and 1910 with a doctorate. He dealt first with neurology and child psychiatry; In 1912 he was Associate Professor of Neurology. Later he turned to the clinical criminology, 1928, he was Associate Professor of Legal Medicine. In 1934 he was appointed a full professor and became director of the Institute of Legal Medicine of the University of Geneva.

He held (together with the psycho- pedagogue Alice Descoeudres, 1877-1963 ) lectures in the fields of psychology, psychoanalysis, Educational Medicine and Physiology at the Institute Jean -Jacques Rousseau in Geneva.

Naville was involved as a forensic pathologist significantly to the elucidation of the Katyn massacre. He was appointed in 1943 by the German authorities in an expert commission to investigate the massacre and took the order right on a private basis, but with the consent of the Swiss authorities and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

In the 1960s, Naville was involved in the autopsy of Charles Zumbach, whose findings ( victims and perpetrators with the same blood group 0) expressed doubts about the guilt of the accused Pierre Jaccoud.

Publications (selection )

• Contribution à l' étude de l' armée suisse aliénation mental dans l' et dans les Armées étrangčres: étude clinique, statistique et de prophylaxis. Kundig, Geneva 1910 ( dissertation).
• Etude du dans un cas d' anatomique névraxe idiotie amaurotique familiale de Sachs Orell Füssli, Zurich, 1917.
• Résumé of publications de F. Naville, professeur ordinaire de médecine légale à l' Université de Genève. Imprimerie du Journal de Genève, Geneva, 1938.
• La réaction you floculation de Meinicke (MTR ) en médecine légale. Schwabe, Basel, 1941.