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ASTRUC, JEAN (1684-1766)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 820 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ASTRUC, JEAN (1684-1766) , French physician and Biblical critic, was born on the 19th of
March
  1684 at Sauve, in
Languedoc
 .
He graduated in
medicine
  at Montpellier 'in 1703, and in 1710 he was appointed to the chair of anatomy at Toulouse, which he retained till 1717, when he became professor of
medicine
  at Montpellier. Subsequently he was appointed successively
superintendent
  of the
mineral
  waters of
Languedoc
  (1721), first physician to the king of Poland (1729), and regius professor of medicine at Paris (1731). He died on the 5th of May 1766 at Paris. Of his numerous works, that on which his fame principally rests is the treatise entitled De Morbis Venereis libri sex, 1736. In addition to other medical works he published anonymously Conjectures sur les memoires originaux dont it parait que Moyse s'est servi pour composer le livre de la Genese, (1753), in which he pointed out that two
main
  sources can be traced in the book of
Genesis
 ; and two, dissertations on the immateriality and immortality, of the soul, 1755.
See Hauck, Realencyk. f. Prot. Theol., 1897, vol. ii. pp. 162-170.


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