Gaucher, Ernest (1854–1918)

French Name

Ernest Gaucher

Original Names

Ernest-Philippe-Charles Gaucher

Date, Country, and City of Death

July 26, 1854, Champlemy, Nièvre, France

Date, Country, and City of Death

January 25, 1918, Paris, France

History of Life

Ernest Gaucher was born in 1854 in a small town in central France. His father was an architect. His mother died when he was still young. He studied medicine in Paris and was admitted as Interne des Hôpitaux in 1877. He became medical doctor in 1882, chief of the laboratory at la Charité Hospital in 1885, and was appointed as Paris hospital doctor in 1886. In 1892 he became lecturer and was appointed as the head of a clinical department in the Saint-Antoine Hospital. In 1902, he was elected to the clinical chair of the Paris Medical School for Cutaneous and Syphilitic Diseases in Saint-Louis hospital as successor of Alfred Fournier (1832–1914) who had retired. Gaucher was elected in a rather unexpected way: Fournier’s successor should have been F-H. Hallopeau...