Frédéric Recordon

Frédéric Recordon (8 April 1811, in Rances – 26 November 1889, in Écublens) was a Swiss physician and ophthalmologist.

He studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg as a pupil of Maximilian Joseph von Chelius, then continued his education in Paris, where he attended lectures given by Frédéric Jules Sichel.

[1] In 1843, with Elisabeth Jeanne de Cerjat and William Haldimand, he founded the Asile des Aveugles (Asylum for the Blind) in Lausanne, where he worked as chief physician from 1844 to 1880.

In the meantime, he taught classes in forensic medicine (from 1862) and hygiene (from 1869) at the Academy of Lausanne.

[2][3] In 1890 a biography was published by his former assistant, Marc Dufour, with the title Le docteur F. Recordon: 1811-1889 in the journal Revue médicale de la Suisse Romande.

The "Home Recordon" for visually impaired elderly persons, part of the Asile des Aveugles in Lausanne.