Qui était William Rogers (1818-1852) ?

Who was William Rogers (1818-1852)?

Résumé

William Rogers, dentiste « anglais » installé à Paris à l’époque romantique, fut un personnage essentiel de la dentisterie, tant par ses écrits et son mode d’exercice que par les procès qu’on lui intenta. Sa véritable identité était Wolf Benjamin Cohen dit William Rogers, d’origine hollandaise. Il se forma en Angleterre, exerça en France et prit la nationalité française en 1848.

Abstract

William Rogers, « an english dentist » settled in Paris during the romantic period, was a key-personage of dentistry, as much by his publications and his practice as by the proceedings at law which were instituted against him. His real civil status was Wolf Benjamin Cohen called William Rogers, from dutch origin. He studied dentisty in England, worked in France and received french nationality in 1848.