Gustave Lagneau

Gustave Lagneau (18August 1827 – 25 August 1896) was a French physician and anthropologist.

Biography

Born in Paris, the son of noted physician Louis-Vivant Lagneau, Gustave Lagneau defended his doctoral thesis in 1851. Initially specialized in the study of venereal diseases until 1860, Lagneau devoted himself almost exclusively to anthropology, hygiene and demography. He was the author of numerous works on these questions, insisting among other things on the mixing of French populations ("races", in the vocabulary of the time). Member of the National Academy of Medicine, he was President of the Society of Anthropology of Paris in 1872 and President at the session of Le Havre of the French Association for the Advancement of Science in 1877.

Besides an important work on syphilitic diseases of the nervous system, he published numerous memoirs in the Annales d'Hygiène, in the Archives générales de Médecine and in the Bulletins et mémoires de la société d'anthropologie de Paris. His most important work was Anthropologie de la France published in 1879.

Works

• Sur les maladies syphilitiques du système nerveux (1860)
• Anthropologie de la France (1879)
• L'Émigration de France (1884)
• Influence du milieu sur la race, modifications mésologiques des caractères ethniques de notre population (1895)

External links

• Works by Gustave Lagneau at Gallica