Charles Derosne
Charles Derosne (born January 23, 1780 in Paris , † September 21, 1846 there ) was a French pharmacist and industrialist .
Derosne, the son of a Parisian pharmacist, studied pharmacy and worked in his brother's pharmacy. He later turned to sugar production and founded a machine factory that built equipment for the sugar industry.
Derosne found narcotine in opium (Derosne's salt with an alkaloid mixture) and examined the acetone , which he and his brother obtained from the distillation of copper acetate . But he earned his greatest merit in sugar production and distilling . From 1808 he cleaned raw sugar with alcohol and in the sugar factory he founded in Challot he also cleaned sugar with animal charcoal. The young engineer Jean-François Cail joined his machine factory for the sugar industry in 1922 , who after Derosne's death made it one of the largest industrial empires in France in the 19th century under his own name.
He is said to have first used phosphorus for matches (ignited by rubbing against rough surfaces) in 1816.
literature
- Winfried Pötsch u. a. Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean-Louis Alibert . Nouveaux éléments de thérapeutique et de matière médicale. Suivis d'un nouvel essai sur l'art de formuler. Crapart, Paris 1804/05, 1st edition, Volume II, pp. 475ff (digital version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Derosne, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French pharmacist and industrialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1780 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1846 |
| Place of death | Paris |