Pierre Sue

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(28 December 1739 – 28 March 1816) was a French anatomist, librarian and physician.

Life

He was born on 28 December 1739 the son of Jean-Joseph Sue and his wife, Jeanne Angelique Martin de Martin. His younger brother was Jean-Joseph Sue (1760-1830). He qualified as a surgeon in 1763. In 1767 he became a Professor of Medicine in

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. He was in this position through the French Revolution but in 1794 moved to the more sedate role of Librarian to the university. In 1784 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were Alexander Monro (secundus), Andrew Duncan, the elder and James Gregory. He died on 28 March 1816.

Publications

*''Eloge de Louis'' (Elegy to Louis) (1792) *''The History of Galvanism'' (1805)

References

French librarians French surgeons 1816 deaths 18th-century French physicians 1739 births {{France-academic-bio-stub