Carel de Maets

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Carel de Maets ( Steven van Lamsweerde , 1659)

Carel de Maets (* 1640 in Utrecht , † January 29, 1690 in Leiden ) was a Dutch chemist .

Life

The son Carolus de Maets and his wife Anna Duvelaer attended the University of Utrecht , where on April 18, 1664, they obtained the academic degree of Magister in Philosophical Sciences. After some time he set up a medical practice there and from December 7, 1668, with the permission of the city council, gave lectures on chemical topics, which at that time were still commonly known as alchemy. Since the curators of the University of Leiden at that time intended to set up a laboratory in association with the university for such purposes, he moved to Leiden, where the new laboratory began its service on February 8, 1669. On March 24, 1670 he became an associate professor at the university's medical faculty and on August 15, 1673 full professor of chemistry at the university's philosophy faculty. He had also given lectures on experimental physics, which Burchardus de Volder continued as a full professor from January 22, 1675 .

He was the first chemistry professor of a science that was hardly recognized at the time, and was established as a modern science by Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier . De Maets headed one of the first university chemical laboratories in the Netherlands (there was already one in Utrecht in 1669 ). Although chemistry was recognized as a science in its own right with the appointment of Maets to the chair, it remained an auxiliary science for medicine , which saw its importance primarily in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals .

Works

  • Prodromus Chymiae rationalis. Leiden 1684, 1687.
  • Chymia rationalis et praxis Chymiatricae rationalis. Leiden 1687
  • Collectanea chymica Leidensia Maetsiana et Marggraviana. Leiden 1696

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personal data
SURNAME Maets, Carel de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1690
Place of death Leiden (city)