Claude Berger (January 20, 1679, Paris – May 22, 1712, Passy) was a French medical doctor and chemist.
[1] He was a medical doctor from the Faculty of Paris and received his degree in medicine in 1669, after presenting a thesis under the presidency of Guy-Crescent Fagon, first physician to the king, against the use of tobacco.
He worked on the study of plants with Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, who appreciated him and recruited him as his pupil at the Royal Academy of Sciences.
Having been received as a doctor of medicine, he was obliged to give lessons at the Schools of Paris for two years, where he was quite successful.
In 1708 he obtained the position of medical adviser to the king for 22,000 pounds, which required him to be present at Versailles the first quarter of each year.