Antoine Constant Saucerotte

Antoine Constant Saucerotte (13 August 1805 in Moscow - 3 November 1884 in Lunéville) was a French physician known in the 19th century for his popularisation work.

Early life and education Constant Saucerotte was the son of Vïctor Joseph Saucerotte, dental surgeon of the Empresses Maria Feodorovna (widow of Paul I) and Elizabeth Alexeievna (wife of Alexander I), in Saint Petersburg, who returned to Lunéville in 1820. His mother was Marie Louise Jolly.

He was the grandson of Nicolas Saucerotte (fr), Surgeon-Major of the army of the North then of the Army of Sambre and Meuse during the French Revolution. The same year he began medical studies at the Faculty of Paris.

After defending his thesis in 1828

Career In 1830, when the chair of philosophy became vacant at the college of Lunéville, he applied for it and obtained it. He began to popularise difficult subjects in his teaching in order to make them better understood by his pupils. On 14 September 1838, he was appointed Chief Physician of the Civil and Military Hospital of Lunéville which enabled him to publish numerous observations in the "Bulletin général de thérapeutique", the "Gazette médicale de Paris" and the weekly Gazette. His name soon acquired an honourable reputation in France as well as abroad, so that when, in 1846, August Wilhelm Henschel began publishing a journal of history and medical literature in Breslau, which he named Janus, he asked Saucerotte for permission to register him as a French collaborator with Émile Littré and Charles Victor Daremberg.

In 1860, he left his chair of philosophy, then in 1862 his post as chief doctor of the civil hospital of Lunéville due to illness, but continued to write and publish, notably in 1863, when he published a book entitled: History and Philosophy in their Relationship with Medicine, where "he sought to prove that medicine and philosophy are two sisters whose good agreement is necessary for the fulfilment of human destinies."

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Distinctions

Legion of Honour Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (14 July 1866).