TY - JOUR AU - Bendavid, Robert AB - Hernia (2007) 11:1–3 DOI 10.1007/s10029-006-0183-2 OBIT UARY Pierre Verhaeghe · Robert Bendavid Received: 30 November 2006 / Accepted: 30 November 2006 / Published online: 11 January 2007 © Springer-Verlag 2007 then a demonstrator in the Anatomy Laboratory of the University of Algiers, where he taught and performed research from 1947 to 1954. In 1950, he was appointed Intern in Paris Hospitals, a post which can be obtained only through arduous competition. He qualiWed in medicine in 1954 and qualiWed in his specialty, general surgery, in the same year. His academic ascent contin- ued unabated from 1954 to 1960 when he reached the rank of Surgeon to the Hospitals of Algiers and, in 1962, Chief of the Surgical Service of the University of Algiers Surgical Center. From 1962 to 1965, he was at the prow of the French medical presence, and of its academic teaching, in Algeria, under the umbrella of Franco-Algerian Co-operation. In 1965, he was appointed surgeon-in-chief to the surgical service of the University of Amiens then, in 1967, Professor of Clini- cal Studies at the University of Amiens’ Faculty of Professor René Stoppa was born in a small Wshing Medicine (Jules Verne University of Picardy), and, village TI - René Stoppa (1921–2006) JF - Hernia DO - 10.1007/s10029-006-0183-2 DA - 2007-01-11 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/ren-stoppa-1921-2006-Z3G33Lyvea SP - 1 EP - 3 VL - 11 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -