Alfred Hardy (dermatologist)

Alfred Hardy
Portrait of Alfred Hardy
Born(1811-11-30)30 November 1811
Paris, France
Died23 January 1893(1893-01-23) (aged 81)
Paris, France

Alfred Louis Philippe Hardy (30 November 1811, Paris – 23 January 1893, Paris) was a French dermatologist.

In 1836 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, where in 1839 he became chef de clinique under Pierre Fouquier at the Hôpital de la Charité. In 1847 he obtained his agrégation at the faculty of medicine in Paris, and four years later, succeeded Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol as chef de service at the Hôpital Saint-Louis. For several years he held classes in dermatology at the hospital. In 1867 he succeeded Jules Béhier as chair of internal pathology at the university, and in 1876 attained the chair of clinical medicine at Hôpital Necker.[1][2]

In 1867 he became a member of the Académie de médecine (section for therapy).[1] In 1889 he served as president of the First International Congress of Dermatology and Syphilography.[3]

  1. ^ a b Alfred Louis Philippe Hardy (1811-1893) Historia de la Medicina
  2. ^ Alfred Hardy Archived 2017-12-14 at the Wayback Machine BIU Santé, Paris
  3. ^ Journal of Cutaneous Diseases Including Syphilis, Volume 6