Samuel Jean Pozzi

Samuel Jean Pozzi was a French surgeon and gynecologist, born at Bergerac in 1846 and dead in Paris in 1918. After studying medicine in Paris and serving as a volunteer medic in the Franco-Prussian War, he specialized in gynecological and abdominal surgery. He established the first Chair of Gynecology in Paris in 1884, performed the first gastroenterostomy in France, was elected to the French Academy of Medicine in 1896, and in 1897 co-founded the Revue de gynecologie et de chirurgie abdominale. He also had interests in anthropology and neurology, served as senator for Bergerac, and supported Alfred Dreyfus during his trial. He is widely remembered for the portrait of him by John Singer Sargent. He was fatally shot in 1918 by a disgruntled patient.