Marie Anne Victoire Boivin née Gillain (April 9, 1773 – May 16, 1841) was a French midwife, writer on obstetrics, and pioneering woman in the field of medicine. Events 193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans) Year 1773 ( MDCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. For the game see 1841 (board game. Year 1841 ( MDCCCXLI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Midwifery is a Health care profession where providers give Prenatal care to expecting Mothers attend the birth of the Infant Obstetrics (from the Latin obstare, "to stand by" is the surgical speciality dealing with the care of a woman and her offspring during Pregnancy
She was born in Montreuil, and educated in a nunnery in Etampes, where her talents attracted the attention of Madame Elisabeth, sister of King Louis XVI. Montreuil is the name or part of the name of several communes of France: Montreuil Eure-et-Loir, in the Eure-et-Loir département An abbey (from Latin abbatia derived from Syriac abba "father" is a Christian Monastery or Étampes is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France. Louis XVI ( 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) Louis-Auguste de France, ruled as King of France and Navarre When the nunnery was destroyed during the French Revolution, she spent three years studying anatomy and midwifery. The French Revolution (1789–1799 was a period of political and social upheaval in the History of France, during which the French governmental structure previously an Anatomy (from the Greek anatomia, from ana separate apart from and temnein, to cut up cut open is a branch of Biology that is the consideration In 1797 she married a government bureaucrat, Louis Boivin, but he died shortly thereafter, leaving her with a daughter and little money. She became a midwife at a local hospital, and in 1801 became its superintendent. In that role she convinced Jean-Antoine Chaptal to add a special school of obstetrics. Jean-Antoine Claude comte Chaptal de Chanteloup ( June 4, 1756 &ndash July 30, 1832) was a French Chemist and statesman In the subsequent years she served as co-director or director at a number of hospitals, including the General Hospital for Seine and Oise (1814), a temporary military hospital (1815), the Hospice de la Maternité, and the Maison Royal de Santé. A work of hers on obstetrics, Mémorial de l'art des accouchements (1817), went through several editions. She was granted an honorary M.D. by the University of Marburg, and was invested with an order of merit by the King of Prussia. Doctor of Medicine ( MD or MD, from the Latin Medicinæ Doctor meaning "Teacher of Medicine" is a doctoral The University of Marburg (Philipps-Universität Marburg 'Philip's University Marburg' was founded in 1527 by Landgrave Philip I of Hesse (usually The Order of Merit is a British and Commonwealth Order bestowed by the Monarch. Prussia ( Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Prūsija Prūsija Prusy Old Prussian: Prūsa) was most recently a historic state
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- "Boivin, Marie Anne Victoire (Gillain)". The New American Cyclopædia 3. (1858). p. 437.
- Marilyn Ogilvie (1986). "Boivin, Marie Gillain". Women in Science: Antiquity through Nineteenth Century: A Biographical Dictionary with Annotated Bibliography. MIT Press. The MIT Press is a University press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts ( USA) p. 43. ISBN 026265038X.
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