Louis Charles Henri Macquart

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Louis Charles Henri Macquart (born December 5, 1745 in Reims , † July 12, 1808 in Paris ) was a French chemist and doctor .

He was a doctor (member of the Société de médicine de Paris), professor of natural history at the École centrale de Seine et Marne and curator in the royal natural history cabinet of Fontainebleau .

On behalf of the state, he undertook a trip to Russia, about which a travelogue published in 1789 was also published in German.

From 1789 to 1818 he was a corresponding member of the Académie des belles-lettres, sciences et arts de La Rochelle for the city of Reims. He was also a member of the Société philomatique in Paris and the Society of Sciences of Hesse-Kassel.

He dealt with mineralogy and analyzed mineral water. The mineral macquarite was named after him. Macquart edited the articles on hygiene in the Dictionnaire de médecine of the Encyclopédie méthodique .

Fonts

  • Essais ou recueil des mémoires sur plusieurs points de minéralogie, avec la description des pièces déposées chez le Roi, la figure, et l'analyse, chimique de celles qui sont les plus intéressantes et la topographie de Moscow: après un voyage fait au Nord par ordre du Gouvernement, 1789
    • German translation: Description of a trip to the north made on the orders of the government: containing treatises on several subjects of mineralogy; Description of the royal. Collection of strange items: a description of the location of Moscow with many statistical comments, Frankfurt 1790 (the description of the location of Moscow also appeared separately), digitized version
  • Dictionnaire de la conservation de l'homme, ou d'hygiène, et d'éducation physique et morale, 1798, 1799
  • Manuel sur les propriétés de l'eau: particulierement dans l'art de guérir, 1783

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Information on Louis Charles Henri Macquart in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
personal data
SURNAME Macquart, Louis Charles Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Reims
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1808
Place of death Paris