Lucien Leclerc

Nicholas Lucien Leclerc (1816 in Ville-sur-Illon – 1893) was a French military doctor, translator, and influential early western historian of medicine in the medieval Islamic world.^[1] He was an assistant military surgeon in Algeria from 1840–44.^[2] His Histoire de la médecine arabe (Paris, 1876) was one of the first major histories of Arabic medicine, but has subsequently been superseded in many areas.^[3]