1. Francois Jules Georges Danjou was a French physician, physiotherapist, military doctor, public health reformer, writer, and vegetarianism activist.
13 Facts About Georges Danjou
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Georges Danjou served as President of the French Vegetarian Society and proposed the creation of an International Vegetarian Federation, which led to the creation of the International Vegetarian Union.
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Francois Jules Georges Danjou was born in Limoux, Aude, on 17 June 1862.
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Georges Danjou later studied at the University of Paris Faculty of Medicine.
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Georges Danjou served in the Second Franco-Dahomean War, where he assembled an extensive ethnographic collection of 341 Dahomey items, including weapons, clothing, votive pottery, jewelry, fetishes, and charms.
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Georges Danjou donated the collection to the Society of Anthropology of Paris in 1895.
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Georges Danjou then redirected his focus to physical education and physiotherapy.
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Georges Danjou traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, where he studied at the prestigious Royal Central Gymnastics Institute.
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Georges Danjou served as president of the French Vegetarian Society and proposed the creation of an International Vegetarian Federation at an international meeting of the Society in 1907, which led to the creation of the International Vegetarian Union.
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Georges Danjou founded vegetarian group in Nice and a Catalonian vegetarian society.
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At the outbreak of World War I, Georges Danjou volunteered for mobilization.
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Georges Danjou initially served in the trenches of the Argonne, but his desire for greater involvement led to his deployment to the Armee d'Orient.
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Georges Danjou died at the age of 63 on 12 May 1926, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.