Auguste Béhal

Auguste Béhal (born March 29, 1859 in Lens (Pas-de-Calais) , † February 1, 1941 in Mennecy ) was a French organic chemist and pharmacologist .

Life

Béhal did an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais) , Lille and Paris and studied from 1878 at the École supérieure de pharmacie in Paris, where he was a student of Émile Jungfleisch . There he won the competition for apprenticeships at the Paris hospitals and befriended Victor Grignard at the Hôpital de la Pitié and won several medals from the Paris hospitals. At the same time he studied organic chemistry at the Sorbonne with Charles Adolphe Wurtz , a fan of atomic theory, who later followed Béhal in his teaching of organic chemistry. Béhal now turned from pharmacy to chemistry. In 1883 he went to Charles Friedel's laboratory , earned his bachelor's degree in the same year and his licentiate in 1884. In 1886 he received his pharmacy diploma. In 1888 he received his doctorate (Doctorat en sciences) and a year later he received the Agrégation . He taught at the École supérieure de pharmacie, where his course in organic chemistry, which was also accessible to other students and was given on the basis of atomic science, found enthusiastic supporters, but was controversial among his colleagues. He officially held the course from 1890 to 1894, but continued thereafter. In 1898, his position was not extended because of his stance in the Dreyfuß affair . Friedel made him Maître de conférences for organic chemistry at the Sorbonne. After Friedel's death in 1899, Albin Haller (1849–1925) was not appointed professor of organic chemistry at the Sorbonne.

In 1901 Béhal became professor of toxicology at the École supérieure de pharmacie and in 1908, as the successor to Jungfleisch, professor of organic chemistry. In 1934 he retired and received an honorary professorship. At the same time, he held various head positions as a pharmacologist at Parisian hospitals in the course of his career.

In 1881 and 1900 he received the Prix Jecker of the Académie des Sciences , of which he had been a member since 1921 and of which he was president in 1939. In 1933 he received the gold medal of the Société de chimie industrial. In 1919 he became commander and in 1929 a grand officer of the Legion of Honor. In 1908 he became Vice President and in 1911 President of the French Chemical Society, of which he was Honorary President from 1931. In 1905 he was president of the Société de pharmacie de Paris. Since 1907 he was a member of the Académie de Médecine, its vice-president in 1921 and its president in 1922. In 1937 he became honorary president of the Société de chimie industrial.

Fonts

• Traité de chimie organique d'après les théories modern , 1896, 1897, 3rd edition with Amand Valeur 1908–1911.

Web links

• Biography at the Société d'histoire de la pharmacie