Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

French physician

1738 CE to 1814 CE

Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (28 May 1738, Saintes – 26 March 1814, Paris) is a French physician who proposes on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out death penalties in France.

While he did not invent the guillotine, and in fact opposed the death penalty, his name became an eponym for it.

The actual inventor of the prototype was Antoine Louis.

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