Back ماري بلانش ويتمان Arabic Blanche Wittmanová Czech Blanche Wittman German Marie Wittman Spanish Blanche Wittman French Blanche Wittman Frisian Blanche Wittman Italian
Marie Wittman | |
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 Wittman around 1880, by Albert Londe | |
| Born | April 15, 1859 Paris, France |
| Died | 1913 (aged 54) |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Hysteria patient of Jean-Martin Charcot |
Marie "Blanche" Wittman (often spelled Wittmann; April 15, 1859 – 1913) was a French woman known as one of the hysteria patients of Jean-Martin Charcot. She was institutionalized in La Salpêtrière in 1877, and was treated by Charcot until his death in 1893. She later became a radiology assistant at the hospital, which resulted in amputations of her arms due to radiation poisoning.
Charcot's techniques were controversial; commentators have disagreed as to whether Wittman suffered from a physical condition like epileptic seizures, suffered from mass hysteria resulting from conditions at La Salpêtrière, or was merely feigning symptoms. She is depicted in A Clinical Lesson at the Salpêtrière (1887) and was the subject of a 2004 Per Olov Enquist novel.