Marie Pasteur
(1826-1910)
BIRTH
1826
PLACE
Clermont-Ferrand, France
NAME
Marie Laurent
DEATH
1910
PLACE
Paris, France
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Marie Pasteur was the wife and scientific collaborator of the chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur. Marie took dictation of his scientific papers, kept notes of his experiments, helped in the laboratory and managed his correspondence. After Pasteur suffered a stroke in 1868, she played an even larger role in his work. After Pasteur's death in 1895, Marie helped preserve his legacy and lived at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. She died in Paris in 1910.
EARLY LIFE
Marie Laurent was born on January 15, 1826, in Clermont-Ferrand, France, the daughter of Charles Laurent, who became rector of the University of Strasbourg. In 1849, when Louis Pasteur was a young professor of chemistry at Strasbourg, he met her through her father and proposed within days, writing her father a frank letter describing his modest prospects. They married on May 29, 1849. Marie was well educated and shared her husband's intellectual interests, and she became his close partner in his work.
Marie and Louis Pasteur had five children, but three of their daughters died young, two of typhoid fever, losses that deepened Pasteur's interest in infectious disease.
Marie took dictation of his scientific papers, kept notes of his experiments, helped in the laboratory and managed his correspondence. After Pasteur suffered a stroke in 1868, she played an even larger role in his work.
After Pasteur's death in 1895, Marie helped preserve his legacy and lived at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. She died in Paris in 1910.
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Marie Pasteur was the wife and scientific collaborator of the chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur. Marie took dictation of his scientific papers, kept notes of his experiments, helped in the laboratory and managed his correspondence. After Pasteur suffered a stroke in 1868, she played an even larger role in his work. Marie Pasteur died in 1910, in Paris, France. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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Marie Laurent Pasteur, Louis Pasteur’s wife and collaborator. The scientific biographies concern her husband and are labelled as related reading; the women-in-science dictionary provides biographical reference. Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, collective biography, reference works and related studies clearly labelled.
1. The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century — Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie; Joy Dorothy Harvey (editors). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
2. The Private Science of Louis Pasteur — Gerald L. Geison. [Related scientific biography of her husband] Find on Amazon
3. Louis Pasteur — Patrice Debré; Elborg Forster (translator). [Related biography of her husband] Find on Amazon
4. The Life of Pasteur — René Vallery-Radot. [Related family biography of her husband] Find on Amazon
5. Louis Pasteur: Free Lance of Science — René J. Dubos. [Related scientific biography of her husband] Find on Amazon
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