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Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

1738 - 1814

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Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (French: [ʒozɛf iɲas ɡijɔtɛ̃])(28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France, as a less painful method of execution than existing methods. Although he did not invent the guillotine and opposed the death penalty, his name became an eponym for it. The actual inventor of the prototype was a French physician, Antoine Louis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin is the 41st most popular physician (down from 19th in 2019), the 382nd most popular biography from France (down from 286th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Physician.

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was a French physician and politician. He invented the guillotine, a device which became the standard method of execution in France.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ranks 41 out of 726. Before him are Rudolf Virchow, Camillo Golgi, Paul Ehrlich, James Black, Niels Ryberg Finsen, and Otto Heinrich Warburg. After him are Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Marcello Malpighi, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Claude Bernard, Elias Lönnrot, and Peter Damian.

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Among people born in 1738, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ranks 3. Before him are George III of the United Kingdom, and William Herschel. After him are Cesare Beccaria, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Túpac Amaru II, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, Thomas Abbt, Ethan Allen, Arthur Phillip, and Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Among people deceased in 1814, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ranks 5. Before him are Joséphine de Beauharnais, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Marquis de Sade, and Maria Carolina of Austria. After him are Benjamin Thompson, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen, Marie-Louise O'Murphy, Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Arthur Phillip, and Louis-Sébastien Mercier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ranks 382 out of 6,770. Before him are Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1010), Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (1748), Colette (1873), André Malraux (1901), Matilda of Boulogne (1103), and Robert Guiscard (1016). After him are Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), Fernand Braudel (1902), Marie Louise d’Orléans (1662), Dagobert I (611), François Arago (1786), and Jean Arp (1886).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ranks 3. Before him are Albert Schweitzer (1875), and Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845). After him are Claude Bernard (1813), Alexis Carrel (1873), Charles Nicolle (1866), Philippe Pinel (1745), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), René Laennec (1781), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Hilary of Poitiers (315), and Ambroise Paré (1510).

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