Louis Jacques Bégin

Louis Jacques Bégin (2 November 1793, Liège – 13 April 1859) was a French military physician.

He began his medical studies in the military hospital at Metz, subsequently serving as an assistant surgeon in the Napoleonic Wars (Russian and German campaigns).

In 1823 he obtained his doctorate at the University of Strasbourg, where in 1832 he became a lecturer in anatomy, physiology and surgery.

In 1832, he was appointed surgeon-major,[1] and in 1842, he became a member of the Conseil de santé des armées (Sanitary council of the French armies), of which he served as president from 1850 to 1857.

With Louis Joseph Sanson (1790–1841), he published new editions of Raphael Bienvenu Sabatier's De la médecine opératoire.