Victor Gautier

Victor Gautier (1824–1890) was a Swiss physician. He served as President of the Medical Society of Geneva.

Early life and education Horace Charles Victor Gautier was born at Geneva in 1824.

He began his medical studies at Zurich in 1841. Two years later, he went to Paris, where, after working under Louis and other distinguished teachers of the day, he took his Doctor's degree in 1850, the subject of his inaugural thesis being Erectile Tumours of the Skin.

Victor Gautier died at Geneva on January 11, 1890, at the age of 66, of pleurisy and nephritis following influenza.