Jean-Louis Faure (surgeon)

Jean-Louis Faure (27 October 1863 to 26 October 1944) was a French surgeon remembered for improving the methods and approaches of gynecological surgery. He was the elder brother of Élie Faure. After early schooling at the Protestant college of Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, where his uncles Élie and Paul Reclus had studied before him, he went on to the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris and in 1884 enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, where his interest turned to surgery. He entered the Paris hospitals as an intern in 1887 and became assistant to Paul Reclus at the Hôpital de la Pitié. Over some thirty years he published authoritative works on gynecological surgery, and in 1918 he succeeded Samuel Jean Pozzi as chair of the gynecological clinic of the Paris Faculty of Medicine. He was elected to the Académie Nationale de Médecine in 1924 and became president of the Académie nationale de chirurgie in 1925. In 1932 he also took part in a polar expedition to Greenland.