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BROCA, PAUL (1824-188o)
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See also:BROCA, See also:PAUL (1824-188o) , See also:French surgeon and anthropologist, was See also:born at Sainte-See also:Foy la Grande, See also:Gironde, on the 28th of See also:June 1824. He See also:early See also:developed a See also:taste for higher See also:mathematics, but circumstances decided him in adopting See also:medicine as his profession. Beginning his studies at See also:Paris in 1841, he made rapid progress, becoming See also:house-surgeon in 1844, assistant anatomical lecturer in 1846, and three years later See also:professor of surgical See also:anatomy. He had already gained a reputation by his pathological researches. In 1853 he was named See also:fellow of the See also:Faculty of Medicine, and in 1867 became member of the See also:Academy of Medicine and professor of surgical See also:pathology to the Faculty. During the years occupied in winning his way to the See also:head of his profession he had published See also:treatises of much value on See also:cancer, aneurism and other subjects. It was in 1861 that he announced his See also:discovery of the seat of articulate speech in the See also:left See also:side of the frontal region of the See also:brain, since known as the convolution of Broca. But famous as he was as a sumeon, his name is associated most closely with the See also:modern gchool of See also:anthropology. Establishing the Anthropological Society of Paris in 1859, of which he was secretary till his See also:death, he was practically the inventor of the modern See also:science of craniology. He rendered distinguished service in the Franco-See also:German See also:War, and during the See also:Commune by his organization and See also:administration of the public hospitals. He founded La Revue d'Anthropologie in 1872, and it was in its pages that the larger portion of his writings appeared. In his last years Broca turned from his labours in the region of craniology to the exclusive study of the brain, in which his greatest triumphs were achieved (see APHASIA). He was decorated with the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 1868, and was honorary fellow of the leading anatomical, biological and anthropological See also:societies of the See also:world. He died on the 9th of See also:July 18So. A statue of him by Choppin was erected in 1887 in front of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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