Ernest-Adolphe Bichat, often called Ernest Bichat, born on (1845-09-17)September 17, 1845 in Lunéville and died on July 26, 1905(1905-07-26) (aged 59) in Nancy, was a French physicist, member of the Higher Council of Public Instruction, president of the General Council of Meurthe-et-Moselle, dean of the Faculty of Sciences, and correspondent of the institute.

He married, on 31. of July 1872. at the town hall of the fifth arrondissement of Paris, Marie Eugénie Hélène Bertin-Mourot, the daughter of his thesis supervisor.

The couple's witnesses were chemist Henri Sainte-Claire Deville, philosopher Ernest Bersot, former Minister of Public Instruction Victor Duruy, all three from the Institut de France, and Louis Pasteur.

[2] The couple had three children:[3] In 1889, along with other personalities from Nancy, Bichat participated in the creation of L'Est républicain, a republican newspaper to combat Boulangism.

[8] An uncontested leader of the opportunist anti-clerical party of the Lunéville district, Ernest-Adolphe Bichat later evolved in the opposite direction[when?]