title: [French faculty of the imperial University of Vilnius in the beginning of the 19th century].
abstract: Known under the name of Vilna at the beginning of the 19th century, Vilnius (today the capital of Lithuania) was then a fast-expanding city, at a crossroads of sciences and arts in Europe. The mainspring of this influence was indisputably its University, the first in Russia considering the number of students, above those of Dorpat (today Tartu) and Moscow. When the University was secularized in 1773, among the new disciplines introduced, was natural history. It was thus decided to create a Collegium medicum. Bishop Massalski, as president of the Commission of National Education, put his personal physician, the French Nicolas Regnier (1723-1800), a native of Strasbourg, in charge of the creation of this school and nominated him in 1775 to the post of professor of anatomy and surgery. Nicolas Regnier was thus the first of the seven physicians originating from France who marked the expansion of the Faculty of Medicine in Vilnius with Jacques Briotet (1746-1819), Jean Emmanuel Gilibert (1741-1814), Auguste Bécu (1771-1824), Jean Pierre Frank (1745-1821), Joseph Frank (1771-1841), and Louis Henri Bojanus (1776-1827).
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Edel
mesh_terms: D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000266:history*; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D012426:Russia; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history*