Claude Bourdelin

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Claude Bourdelin (* 1621 in Villefranche-sur-Saône ; † October 14, 1699 ibid) was a French chemist and pharmacist.

Bourdelin trained as a pharmacist in Paris and was then in the service of Gaston de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans , the king's younger brother. He was there for over 20 years the assistant pharmacist of the duke and his court and pharmacist for the stables. He was well connected and in 1666 became a founding member of the Academie des Sciences . On behalf of the academy, he built a chemical laboratory next to their meeting room, where he began chemical analyzes in 1667, which he kept detailed records of and made these available to the academy members, as well as chemical substances. From 1687 he was allowed to continue the experiments in his own house. He analyzed plants, animals, minerals, body fluids, mostly using distillations.

He was still under the influence of iatrochemistry and, according to Birembaut, his results were of no great value from today's point of view, but they showed a rational approach to alchemy and the manuscripts of his protocols preserved at the academy show the state of knowledge at that time.

He should not be confused with the chemist Louis-Claude Bourdelin (1696–1777), also a chemist at the Academie des Sciences.

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SURNAME Bourdelin, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chemist
DATE OF BIRTH 1621
PLACE OF BIRTH Villefranche-sur-Saône
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1699
Place of death Paris