Jacques François Édouard Hervieux

Who was Jacques François Édouard Hervieux?

Jacques François Édouard Hervieux was a French pediatrician and gynecologist born in Louviers.

In 1838 he received his licence ès lettres in Rouen, afterwards obtaining a degree in science in Paris, where he later studied medicine. From 1844 to 1848 he worked as a hospital interne in Paris, followed by many years as a hospital physician. In 1892 he became an officer of the Légion d'honneur, and in 1896 was appointed president of the Académie Nationale de Médecine. He is buried at Cimetière de Montmartre.

Hervieux is remembered for his systematic research of neonatal jaundice. In 1847 he published a major work on the disease called De l'ictère de nouveau-nés.