Frédéric Jules Sichel

Frédéric Jules Sichel (14 May 1802 – 11 November 1868) was a French physician and entomologist.

Sichel was born Frankfurt am Main. After his initial studies he went to live in Paris in 1829 where he opened the first ophthalmic clinic in 1832 and is credited with bringing modern ophthalmology to France from Austria and Germany. He obtained his doctorate in Frankfurt in 1833 with a thesis entitled Propositions générales sur l'ophthalmologie, suivies de l'histoire de l'ophthalmie rhumatismale. Afterwards Sichel trained several famous ophthalmologists (Louis-Auguste Desmarres, Charles Deval, Charles de Hübsch and Wiktor Szokalski) at his Paris clinic. He was interested in oriental languages and archaeology writing extensively on the seals of Roman doctors. In entomology he specialized in Hymenoptera. Sichel died in Paris.

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Archeology

Medical

Entomology

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Translated with minor additions from French Wikipedia

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