Ferdinand-Jean Darier 1263947 194975012 2008-02-29T21:05:28Z 151.48.163.225 +it [[Image:Darier.jpg|thumb|right|Ferdinand-Jean Darier]] '''Darier Jean Ferdinand''' (b. [[April 26]] [[1856]], [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]]; d. [[1938]], [[Paris]], [[France]]) was a [[French people|French]] [[physician]], [[pathologist]] and [[dermatologist]]. Darier was a brilliant clinician and outstanding pathologist, who studied with [[Louis-Antoine Ranvier]] (1835-1922) at the [[Collège de France]]. He was the unquestionable leader of the French dermatology. He described several diseases, the most important being [[Darier's disease]], a peculiar figurate [[erythema]] which he identified in 1889 as ''psorodermose folliculaire végétante''. Other diseases discovered by him were a follicular [[keratosis]] (Darier-White syndrome), [[acanthosis nigricans]], [[dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans|dermatofibrosarcoma]] (Darier-Ferrand disease), [[Erythema annulare centrifugum|erythema annularis]], [[subcutaneous sarcoidosis]] (Darier-Roussy sarcoid), and a sign, [[Darier's sign]] observed in [[mastocytosis]]. From 1909 to 1922, he was the chairman of the clinical department at the [[Hôpital Saint-Louis]]. Darier was one of the "big five" of the Paris School of Dermatology, along with [[Ernest Henri Besnier]] (1831-1909), [[Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq]] (1856-1928), [[Raymond Sabouraud|Raymond Jacques Adrien Sabouraud]] (1864-1938) and [[Jean Alfred Fournier]] (1832-1915). Darier wrote a most important [[textbook]] of Dermatology, published in [[1909]], which was reedited many times in France and translated into Spanish, German and English. He was also the editor an important dermatological [[encyclopedia]]: ''Nouvelle Pratique Dermatologique'', which was published in 8 volumes, beginning in 1936. Besides his medical activities, Darier was the [[mayor]] of [[Longpont-sur-Orge]], a small town in the suburban area of [[Paris]], from 1925 to 1935. ==Bibliography== * ''De l’artérite syphilitique''. Paris, 1904. * ''Précis de dermatologie''. Paris, 1909. ==External links== * [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/514.html Ferdinand-Jean Darier]. WhoNamedIt. {{BD|1856|1938|Darier, Ferdinand-Jean}} [[Category:French dermatologists]] [[Category:French pathologists]] [[Category:French physicians]] [[Category:People from Budapest]] [[fr:Ferdinand-Jean Darier]] [[it:Ferdinand-Jean Darier]]