André Hovelacque

André Hovelacque
Born	(1880-03-29)29 March 1880 7th arrondissement of Paris
Died	19 July 1939(1939-07-19) (aged 59) Paris
Nationality	French
Occupation	Anatomist
Known for	Studies of the peripheral nervous system
Spouse	Lévi Alvarès
Parent	Abel Hovelacque (father)

André Édouard Émile Hovelacque (29 March 1880, 7th arrondissement of Paris – 19 July 1939, Paris) was a 20th-century French anatomist who particularly studied the anatomy of the peripheral nervous system.

The son of Abel Hovelacque, he married Madeleine Lévi Alvarès in 1911, herself a physician and great grand niece of David Lévi Alvarès.

Works

• Hovelacque, André (1912). Anatomie descriptive et topographique des racines rachidiennes postérieures;Les divers procédés de radicotomie postérieure (opérations de Foerster), Arthur Van Gehuchten, Guleke) (in French). Nancy: Berger-Levrault. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
• Hovelacque, André (1923). Les nerfs crâniens;Anatomie macroscopique (in French). Presses Universitaires de France. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
• Hovelacque, André (1927). Anatomie des nerfs crâniens et rachidiens et du système grand sympathique chez l'homme (in French).

External links

• Article Hovelacque on Anatomicum.org, with black and white photographs.