Dr. Jacques Berchtold

Biography

Jacques Berchtold obtained his doctorate in letters from the University of Geneva in 1994. He taught French literature at the Faculty of Letters, University of Geneva from 1986 to 2008, and also at universities in Bern, Yale, and Johns Hopkins. He was a fellow at the Swiss Institute in Rome. Following his Habilitation at the Sorbonne in 2000, he became a professor of 18th-century French literature at Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle from 2001 to 2008 and then at Paris 4 - Sorbonne from 2008 to 2014, where he achieved the rank of "classe exceptionnelle" in 2012. Since 2014, he has been the director of the Martin Bodmer Foundation in Cologny, managing numerous projects in collaboration with the University of Geneva. His publications focus on the links between literature, humanism, and medicine, particularly concerning authors like Diderot, Flaubert, Goethe, Lesage, Rousseau, and Shelley. Since 2017, he has been a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, where he teaches at the Interfaculty Center for Bioethics and Humanities in Medicine, collaborating with Professor Alexandre Wenger and Radu Suciu on topics such as "Paracelsus and Faust" and "Frankenstein."

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