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Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
| French doctor Date of Birth: 28.05.1738 Country: France |
Content:
- Joseph-Ignace Guillotin: A Life Beyond the Guillotine
- Education and Early Career
- Involvement in the Mesmer Controversy
- Political Involvement and Proposal for Guillotine
- Guillotine and the Reign of Terror
- Death and Legacy
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin: A Life Beyond the Guillotine
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a French physician and inventor, became inadvertently associated with the infamous guillotine, a device named after him but which he had only a tangential connection to.
Education and Early Career
Born in 1738, Guillotin obtained his master's degree through a dissertation presented to the University of Bordeaux.
His work impressed the Jesuits, who recruited him into their order. After a brief stint as a professor of literature at the Irish College of Bordeaux, Guillotin relocated to Paris to study medicine under Antoine Petit. In 1768, he became a licensed physician and la
