Charles Négrier (July 14, 1792 in Angers – January 31, 1862 in Angers), was a French medical doctor. He began his career in the military and later became a corresponding member of the Académie nationale de médecine and of the Societies of Angers and Nantes.
He is, with Félix Archimède Pouchet, one of the first two researchers to have scientifically described the mechanism of ovulation in the human species and in other mammals.
Released from the army, Charles Négrier returned to study medicine in Paris. On February 2, 1817, he took the rank of doctor, and returned to settle in Angers, where he married on February 28, 1821, Rose Adèle Clarisse Saillard, born in Nantes. In 1827 he was appointed assistant to the childbirth course given by fr:Michel Chevreul at the École secondaire de Médecine et de pharmacie (Secondary School of Medicine and Pharmacy) in Angers.
Charles Négrier succeeded Michel Chevreul as holder of the course on April 20, 1838. In 1845, he was called to the very direction of the Secondary School of Medicine and Pharmacy of Angers. This charge remained entrusted to him by two successive renewals in 1850 and 1854.
In September 1859, he lost his eldest daughter. After two years of insanity,[1] he died on January 31, 1862, at the age of 69.
Charles Négrier published widely and was a much appreciated administrator and teacher.
Since April 8, 1881, a street in Angers, in the district of Doutre Saint-Jacques Nazareth, bears the name of Négrier. It begins on Boulevard Daviers and ends on Place de la Paix.[2]
Publications
Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur les ovaires dans l'espèce humaine, considérés spécialement sous le rapport de leur influence dans la menstruation par C. Négrier,... ; avec onze planches lithographiées par M. Beau, d'après les dessins de M. Lebiez, Paris : Béchet Je. and Labé, Paris 1840, 1 vol. (XIX-131-11 p.-XIX f. de pl.) ; in-8.