André Hovelacque | |
Birth Date: | 29 March 1880 |
Birth Place: | 7th arrondissement of Paris |
Death Place: | Paris |
Nationality: | French |
Father: | Abel Hovelacque |
Spouse: | Lévi Alvarès |
Occupation: | Anatomist |
Known For: | Studies of the peripheral nervous system |
André Édouard Émile Hovelacque (29 March 1880, 7th arrondissement of Paris[1] – 19 July 1939, Paris[2]) was a 20th-century French anatomist who particularly studied the anatomy of the peripheral nervous system.
The son of Abel Hovelacque, he married Madeleine Lévi Alvarès in 1911, herself a physician and great grand niece of David Lévi Alvarès.