Antoine Marfan

He was born in Castelnaudary (département Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon) to Antoine Prosper Marfan and Adélaïde Thuries.

[1] He began his medical studies in Toulouse, where he stayed for two years before moving to Paris.

In 1903 he became a professor of infantile hygiene in the paediatric clinic of the University of Paris.

Today, it is thought that Marfan's patient (a five-year-old girl named Gabrielle) was affected by a condition known as congenital contractural arachnodactyly, and not Marfan's syndrome.

With Jacques-Joseph Grancher (1843–1907) and Jules Comby (1853–1947), he was co-author of Traité des maladies de l’enfance.