Professor Ferdinand Commandeur Medal – Lyon – Champagneux – signed by Jean Chorel
In bronze
Weight: 72 g
Diameter: 54.5 mm
Biography :
- Ferdinand Commandeur, born November 3, 1868 in Lyon (Rhône), died August 18, 1926 in Lyon (Rhône).
- Doctor. Naturalist: entomology and botany.
- Associate professor of obstetric clinic at the Faculty of Medicine of Lyon. Midwife at Lyon hospitals.
- 1890, surgical internship.
- 1896.
Clinicat en obstétrique. - 1899, midwife competition.
- 1903, founder of the Mutualité maternelle de Lyon and President.
- 1904, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine.
- President of the French Union of Maternal Mutualities and administrator of the General Union of the Rhône Mutuality. Administrator of the welfare office, of the Departmental Committee on Birth Rates, of the Departmental Committee on the Protection of Early Childhood.
- Member of the Linnean Society of Lyon and the Botanical Society of Lyon.
Obverse:
Profile bust to the right of Professor Ferdinand Commandeur .
Circular inscription:
1868 PROFESSEUR F. COMMANDEUR 1926
Signature: JEAN CHOREL 1929
Reverse:
Against a mountain backdrop, a house in Champagneux (Savoie) ( possibly the Villa du Revard or the Town Hall ), a town where Ferdinand Commandeur was mayor from 1912 to 1926.
At the bottom:
CHAMPAGNEUX
1912-1926
Signature: JEAN CHOREL
Edge:
Triangular punch + BRONZE
