Alexandre François Augustin Liautard | |
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.jpg) Liautard in about 1901 | |
| Born | February 15, 1835 |
| Died | April 20, 1918 (aged 83) |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort, École nationale vétérinaire de Toulouse |
| Known for | Founder of a Veterinary School in New York and the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, known as the "father of the American veterinary profession". |
| Awards | Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Veterinarian, equine medicine and surgery, veterinary teaching in the United States |
| Institutions | New York American Veterinary College, American Veterinary Medical Association |
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Alexandre François Augustin Liautard (February 15, 1835, Paris – April 20, 1918, Bois-Jérôme-Saint-Ouen, Eure, France) was a French veterinarian. After graduating from the École nationale vétérinaire de Toulouse in 1856, he emigrated to the United States in 1859 to exercise his profession of veterinary practitioner in New York until 1900, when he retired and returned to France. The name of Alexandre Liautard is associated with the beginning of private veterinary education in America. Liautard was the founder and dean of the New York American Veterinary College. He participated in organizing the American Veterinary profession and founded the United States Veterinary Medical Association, now the American Veterinary Medical Association, of which he was for many years a driving force. His name is still cited in the American veterinary press as a dominant figure in the history of the profession for having defined its professional standards and missions, and been a uniting force, and as founder of the American Veterinary Review, now the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA).
Alexandre Liautard is honored today, as he was during his lifetime, as the "father of the American veterinary profession".