René Laënnec

Height 163 cm, slim body, short well-groomed brown hair, high forehead, kind blue eyes, long nose with a hump, face tapering to the chin, thin lips, shadows under the eyes. Has hyperopia and wears glasses for work

Honest, straightforward, loyal to his principles, always achieves his goals, polite, virtuous, and a perfectionist. In his free time, he paints and writes poetry, has written a heroic-comic poem that will be published more than a hundred years after his death, plays the flute, and enjoys horseback riding and hunting

Moderate republican. In 1800, he volunteered to serve as a military doctor in General Brune's army, which fought against the royalists in Brittany and Normandy. He also served at the court and treated Napoleon I. Prefer to avoid political discussions and focused on medicine. He had great respect for women, and he invented the stethoscope because he found it inappropriate to place his ear on a young patient's chest. Since childhood, he has been a devout Catholic, following all church rules and openly expressing his commitment to Catholic Christianity, even if it may harm his career. Despite his modest financial situation, he helps the poor.

Father – Théophile-Marie Laennec, he was a lawyer and very stingy. Mother – Michelle Felicite Gessdon Laennec Younger brother – Michel Jean Bonaventura (called Michaud), born in 1782, with him René had a very close friendship. Michaud died in 1810 from tuberculosis. René was mostly raised by his uncles: Guillaume François Laennec, a doctor, chief physician at the Hôtel-Dieu de Nantes, a teacher, and headmaster of a school, and Michel Jean Alexandre Laennec, the curé of Élian, a doctor of the Sorbonne, a canon, and the vicar of the Cathedral of Trégier (who died of tuberculosis in 1802).

René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec. He was born on February 17, 1781, in the city of Quimper, in the west of France. In 1802, he published his first scientific work on the symptoms of peritonitis, and later wrote numerous articles on liver cirrhosis and brain anatomy. He became the editor-in-chief of the Journal de Médecine in 1814 and later became a professor at the Collège de France and a member of the French Academy of Medicine