Alexandre Édouard Baudrimont

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Alexandre Edouard Baudrimont (born February 25, 1806 in Compiègne , † March 24, 1880 in Bordeaux ) was a French chemist.

Life

Baudrimont was the son of a road and bridge inspector, apprenticed as a pharmacist at the age of twelve and studied pharmacy in Paris from 1823. From 1825 he also studied medicine and received his doctorate in medicine in 1831, after which he was a resident doctor in Valenciennes , and in 1834 in pharmacy. He continued studying chemistry with a licentiate in 1839 and a doctorate in 1847. He was then assistant to Auguste Laurent at the University of Bordeaux and in 1849, after his departure, he was his successor as professor of chemistry in Bordeaux.

Baudrimont had broad interests, he also dealt with geometry, physics, medicine and biology and wrote books on the Basque language and the Basques as well as the Erromintxela .

He developed a theory of chemical compounds, over which he got into a priority dispute with his teacher Laurent (and his teacher Jean-Baptiste Dumas ).

Baudrimont produced sodium phosphide by reacting sodium with phosphorus pentachloride, examined aqua regia and was an early proponent of Amedeo Avogadro's gas theory .

Fonts

  • Traité de chimie générale et expérimentale, 1844 to 1846
  • Introduction à l'étude de la chimie par la théorie atomique, 1833
  • Dictionnaire de l'industrie manufacturière, commerciale et agricole 1837
  • Observations on the constitution la plus intime des animaux, considérée aux points de vue de l'anatomie et de la physiologie générales 1850
  • Histoire des Basques ou Escualdunais primitifs, restaurée d'après la langue, les caractères ethnologiques et les mœurs des Basques actuels 1854
  • Notice on the preparation of various boissons propres à remplacer le vin, 1855
  • Vocabulaire de la langue des Bohémiens habitant les Pays basque français, 1862
  • Recherches expérimentales et observations sur le choléra épidémique, 1866

literature

personal data
SURNAME Baudrimont, Alexandre Édouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baudrimont, Alexandre Edouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Compiègne
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1880
Place of death Bordeaux