Jacques Raige-Delorme

Jacques Raige-Delorme
Born 18 November 1795
Montargis, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Died 22 January 1887 (aged 91)
Paris, France
Occupation Physician, librarian

Jacques Raige-Delorme (18 November 1795, Montargis 22 January 1887, Paris) was a French physician and librarian, known for his work involving medical dictionaries.

He studied medicine in Paris and received his doctorate in 1819 with the dissertation "Considérations médico-légales sur l'empoisonnement par les substances corrosives". In 1836 he began work as an assistant librarian at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris. Following the death of Jean-Eugène Dezeimeris in 1852 he was named chief librarian. From 1823 to 1854 he was the principal editor of the journal "Archives générales de médecine".[1]

Published works

With Amédée Dechambre, he published Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales (1864), an encyclopedia on medical science that was published in five installments consisting of 100 volumes overall. He also made important contributions to the following dictionaries:

Among his other written efforts were the necrologies of Pierre Augustin Béclard (1825), Étienne-Jean Georget (1828), Jean-Eugène Dezeimeris (1852) and François Louis Isidore Valleix (1855).[2]

References

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