Jacques Ruffié, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacques Ruffié

French anthropologist

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1921

Place of Birth: Limoux, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 01-Jul-2004

Profession: university teacher, geneticist, hematologist, anthropologist, French Resistance fighter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Jacques Ruffié, born 22 November 1921 in Limoux, France died 1 July 2004 was a French haematologist , geneticist and Anthropologist .
He founded a discipline, called Blood typing which allowed for the study of blood characteristics to find the history of the people, their migration and their successive interbreeding. He was a colleague and great personal friend of Michel Foucault at the College de France; Foucault mentions him in a newly discovered essay review of a book that Ruffe published in 1976 entitled De la biologie à la culture (From Biology To Culture)