Louis-Claude Bourdelin
Louis-Claude Bourdelin (born October 18, 1696 in Paris , † September 13, 1777 there ) was a French chemist and doctor.
Bourdelin was from 1743 royal professor of chemistry at the Jardin du Roi (his successor was Pierre-Joseph Macquer ) and from 1736 dean (doyen) of the medical faculty in Paris.
He came from a family of doctors and chemists (his father was also an Academy member) and received his doctorate in medicine in Paris in 1720.
He found that the alkaline salts existed in plants as well as acids and published, among other things, about borax , lye salts and succinic acid. Otherwise he was of little importance as a chemist and it was said that the chemical demonstrator Guillaume-François Rouelle (Bourdelin gave the theoretical lecture, Rouelle carried out the experiments) used to refute him regularly.
Bourdelin had a practice in Paris and was from 1761 chief doctor of the daughters of the French king.
In 1773 he became a member of the Leopoldina . He was a member of the Académie des Sciences (from 1725, most recently as a pensioner) and in 1746 became a foreign member of the Berlin Academy .
He is not to be confused with the chemist Claude Bourdelin .
literature
- Éloge de M. de Bourdelin, Academie des Sciences, pdf
Web links
- Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim: The National Museum of Natural History in Paris, Frankfurt 1802, p. 195f, Google Books
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry of Louis-Claude Bourdelin at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 25, 2016.
- ↑ Louis-Claude Bourdelin. Members of the predecessor academies. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, accessed on February 25, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bourdelin, Louis-Claude |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chemist and doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1696 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 13, 1777 |
| Place of death | Paris |