Nicolaas Bondt
Nicolaas Bondt (born March 20, 1765 in Wilsveen , † August 17, 1796 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch doctor, botanist and chemist.
Bondt attended the Latin school in Delft and the one in Leiden, where the family moved after the death of their father. From 1780 he studied medicine in Leiden and received his doctorate in 1788. In 1790 he published a price paper sent to Paris on the comparative properties of milk from different origins (with Abraham van Stipriaan). In 1793 he became professor of botany at the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam .
In 1791 he founded the Batavian Club , a private chemical company, with Johan Rudolph Deiman , Pieter Nieuwland and Adriaan Paets van Troostwijk in Amsterdam . Later the pharmacist Anthonie Lauwerenburgh and the doctor Gerard Vrolik also became members. They were instrumental in spreading Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier's ideas in the Netherlands and published in their own magazine.
Troostwijk, Deiman, Anthonie Lauwerenburgh and Nicolaas Bondt became known when they produced 1,2-dichloroethane, the oil used by Dutch chemists, from ethene in 1794 .
He is buried in Diemen .
Fonts
- with JR Deiman, Lauwerenburgh, Troostwijk: Recherches sur les divers espèces des gaz, qu'on obtient en mè l'acide sulfurique concentrè avec l'alcool, Journal de physique, Volume 45, 1794, pp. 178–191
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bondt, Nicolaas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch chemist, doctor and botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilsveen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 1796 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |