François-Vincent Raspail

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FV Raspail, gravure (1848)

François-Vincent Raspail, L.L.D., M.D. (25 January 1794 – 7 January 1878) was a French

socialist
politician.

Biography

Raspail was born in

Louis Napoleon's 2 December 1851 coup, his sentence was commuted to exile, from which he returned to France only in 1862. In 1869, during the liberal phase of the Second Empire (1851–1870), he was elected deputy from Lyons. He remained a popular republican during the French Third Republic after the short-term Paris Commune
in 1871.

Raspail died in Arcueil.

His sons, Benjamin Raspail (1823), Camille Raspail (1827), Émile Raspail [fr] (1831), and Xavier Raspail [fr] (1840) were also all notable figures in the Third Republic. His daughter, Marie Raspail (1837-1876), was a freethinker and republican; she was a staunch supporter of her father and died from an illness contracted while caring for him during his time as a political prisoner towards the end of his life.[2]

Scientific achievements

Raspail was one of the founders of the

antiseptic(s) and better sanitation and diet. His "Manuel annuaire de la santé 1834" is portrayed in the painting "Nature morte avec oignons/Still life with a plate of onions
" by Vincent van Gogh (1889 Kroller-Muller).

Entry into politics

After the revolution of 1830, Raspail became involved in politics. He was President of the Human Rights Society, and was imprisoned for that role. While in prison, he tended sick inmates and studied their diseases. He became convinced of the value of camphor, which he believed worked by killing extremely small parasites – a version of the germ theory of disease.

Later career

François-Vincent Raspail

Raspail was a

Raspail Métro station
takes its name.

Publications

  • Essai de chimie microscopique 1830
  • Nouveau système de chimie organique 1833
  • Manuel annuaire de la santé 1834, reissued annually
  • Le Réformateur (newspaper, published 1834–35)
  • Lettres sur les Prisons du Paris 1839
  • Histoire naturelle de la santé 1843
  • Manuel annuaire de la Santé, ou Médecine et Pharmacie domestiques . Selbstverl., Paris 1845 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf

Further reading

  • Hayat, Samuel, and Sarah-Louise Raillard. “Running in Protest. The Impossible Candidacy of François-Vincent Raspail, December 1848.” Revue Française de Science Politique (English Edition) 64, no. 5 (2014): 1–35. online.
  • Raspail: Scientist and Reformer by Dora B. Weiner (Columbia University Press, 1968)

See also

The standard author abbreviation Raspail is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]

References

  1. ^ Dictionnaire Universelle de la Franc-Maçonnerie - Jode and Cara (Larousse - 2011)
  2. ^ Besant, Annie (7 January 1877). "Mademoiselle Marie Raspail, Freethinker and Republican". The National Reformer. 29 (1): 1.
  3. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Raspail.

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