# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alix-joffroy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:30:00.363Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alix-joffroy"
name: "Alix Joffroy"
slug: "alix-joffroy"
description: "Alix Joffroy was a French neurologist and psychiatrist remembered for describing Joffroy's sign. He studied in Paris, earning his doctorate in 1873, becoming médecin des hôpitaux in 1879 and agrégé in 1880. He worked at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital from 1885 and succeeded Benjamin Ball as professor of clinical psychiatry in 1893."
tagline: "French neurologist and psychiatrist (1844-1908)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joffroy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1844-12-16"
deathDate: "1908-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.05
  momentum:             16.42857142857143
  historical:           5.002304000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A"
    title: "ألكسيس جوفروي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alix_Joffroy"
    title: "Alix Joffroy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%84%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B3_%DA%98%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A2"
    title: "آلیکس ژوفروآ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alix_Joffroy"
    title: "Alix Joffroy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Joffroy"
    title: "Alexis Joffroy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2837282"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump