André Hovelacque

André Édouard Émile Hovelacque (29 March 1880, 7th arrondissement of Paris[1] – 19 July 1939, Paris[2]) was a 20th-century French anatomist who particularly studied the anatomy of the peripheral nervous system.

André Hovelacque
Born(1880-03-29)29 March 1880
7th arrondissement of Paris
Died19 July 1939(1939-07-19) (aged 59)
Paris
NationalityFrench
OccupationAnatomist
Known forStudies of the peripheral nervous system
SpouseLévi Alvarès
Parent

The son of Abel Hovelacque, he married Madeleine Lévi Alvarès in 1911, herself a physician and great grand niece of David Lévi Alvarès.

Works
  • Hovelacque, André (1912). Anatomie descriptive et topographique des racines rachidiennes postérieures;Les divers procédés de radicotomie postérieure (opérations de Foerster), Arthur Van Gehuchten, Guleke) (in French). Nancy: Berger-Levrault. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  • Hovelacque, André (1923). Les nerfs crâniens;Anatomie macroscopique (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  • Hovelacque, André (1927). Anatomie des nerfs crâniens et rachidiens et du système grand sympathique chez l'homme (in French).

References
  1. Archives de Paris 7e, acte de naissance n°411, année 1880 (sans mention marginale de décès)
  2. Nécrologie dans le bulletin de la Société de chirurgie de Lyon
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