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Why did Claude Bernard leave the Sorbonne for the Museum of Natural History in 1868?
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Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858.
In 1868, Claude Bernard left the Sorbonne to accept a newly established professorship in general physiology at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. This transition was facilitated by the French emperor Napoleon III, who had previously commissioned a laboratory for Bernard at the museum in 1864 to address the lack of research facilities he had experienced at the Sorbonne.1