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Guillaume Dupuytren

1777 - 1835

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Guillaume Dupuytren, Baron Dupuytren (UK: , US: , French: [ɡijom dypɥitʁɛ̃]; 5 October 1777 – 8 February 1835) was a French anatomist and military surgeon. Although he gained much esteem for treating Napoleon Bonaparte's hemorrhoids he is best known today for his description of Dupuytren's contracture, which is named after him and on which he first operated in 1831 and published in The Lancet in 1834. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guillaume Dupuytren is the 282nd most popular physician (up from 284th in 2019), the 2,119th most popular biography from France (up from 2,190th in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Guillaume Dupuytren ranks 282 out of 726. Before him are Eduard Wirths, August Oetker, Hans Berger, Regnier de Graaf, Thomas Hodgkin, and Hiraga Gennai. After him are Neferkare Neby, Irmfried Eberl, Norman Bethune, Ali ibn Ridwan, Sun Simiao, and Gregg L. Semenza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Guillaume Dupuytren ranks 22. Before him are Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, Bernard Courtois, Adélaïde d'Orléans, Louis Poinsot, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, and Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville. After him are Filippo Taglioni, Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, Lorenzo Bartolini, Aleksander Orłowski, William II, Elector of Hesse, and Christian Daniel Rauch. Among people deceased in 1835, Guillaume Dupuytren ranks 11. Before him are Antoine-Jean Gros, Auguste, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Thérésa Tallien, Catharina of Württemberg, Izabela Czartoryska, and Alexander McDonnell. After him are John Nash, François Étienne de Kellermann, August von Platen-Hallermünde, Friedrich Stromeyer, John Marshall, and Franz von Paula Schrank.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume Dupuytren ranks 2,119 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Cazotte (1719), Léon Flameng (1877), Princess Elisabeth of Savoy (1800), Joseph Joubert (1754), John I, Duke of Alençon (1385), and Marcel Schwob (1867). After him are Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1801), Henri Cochet (1901), Pierre Joseph Pelletier (1788), Jeanne Lanvin (1867), Alan Stivell (1944), and Barthélemy Catherine Joubert (1769).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Guillaume Dupuytren ranks 31. Before him are Albert Calmette (1863), Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757), Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol (1772), François Magendie (1783), Bernard Kouchner (1939), and Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853). After him are Pierre Fauchard (1679), Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757), Edmond Locard (1877), Édouard Séguin (1812), Jean-Baptiste Denys (1643), and Louis de Jaucourt (1704).

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