Alexandre Liautard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexandre Liautard

French veterinarian

Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1835

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 18-Apr-1918

Profession: physician, veterinarian

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Alexandre François Augustin Liautard was a French veterinarian born on February 15, 1835 in Paris and died April 20, 1918 at Bois-Jérôme-Saint-Ouen, ( Eure, France).
After graduating from the École nationale vétérinaire de Toulouse in 1856, he emigrated to the United States in 1859 to exercise his profession of veterinary practitioner in New York until 1900, when he retired and returned to France.
The name of Alexandre Liautard is associated with the beginning of private veterinary education in America.
Liautard was the founder and dean of the New York American Veterinary College.
He participated in organizing the American Veterinary profession and founded the United States Veterinary Medical Association, now the American Veterinary Medical Association, of which he was for many years a driving force.
His name is still cited in the American veterinary press as a dominant figure in the history of the profession for having defined its professional standards and missions, and been a uniting force, and as founder of the American Veterinary Review, now the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA). Alexandre Liautard is honored today, as he was during his lifetime, as the « father of the American veterinary profession ».