Louis Piette

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Dillinger paper mill in the middle of the 19th century

Louis Piette (born October 4, 1803 in Commanster, Luxembourg , today: Beho , Belgium ; † June 27, 1862 in Paris , also Maria Ludwig Valentin ) was a Franco-Prussian paper manufacturer, inventor, publisher and book author.

Life

Louis Piette was born in 1803 as the eldest son of paper manufacturer Jean Louis Piette . He studied law in Metz, Strasbourg and Paris and then became a lawyer . As a long-time assistant to his father, he took over the management of the Dillingen paper mill in 1827 . His younger brother Prosper Joseph Maria Piette was responsible there as a technician. After the death of their father in 1833, they both ran the factory. Louis Piette was responsible for the external representation of the company, while his younger brother took over the management.

Both introduced new methods of paper production, such as their own method of sizing, and from 1830 they processed waste paper as a kind of forerunner of recycling . In 1837 they received a Prussian patent for the production of cardboard lids and one year later they invented a rotary kettle, which they sent to the Bryan Donkin & Co company for production because their own funds were insufficient. Another invention was a knot catcher (1848). In Paris they begin the industrial use of paper machines after an introduction to Dillingen failed due to the regulations of the customs . Due to the great success, the family business was converted into a stock corporation in 1844 .

In 1848 the two brothers separated. While Propser Piette went to Bryan Donkin as a technical expert and later set up his own paper mills in Bohemia , Louis Piette went to Arlon . The factory was bought by J. Weidner . Louis Piette helped Baron Constant d'Hoffschmidt of Belgium set up and run a paper mill in Pont d'Oye . However, the business relationship ended in 1857. In the meantime, Piette worked as a publisher of a French specialist journal of the paper industry, the Journal des Fabricants de Papier , on which he concentrated his further efforts. To do this, he moved to Paris, where he worked in an advisory capacity.

Piette fell ill in the winter of 1861/62 and died six months later on June 27, 1862 in Paris.

Journalistic activity

Louis Piette wrote a number of books on the industrial manufacture of paper. Piette wrote his books bilingually, in German and French. In addition, the Journal des Fabricants de Papier was published in 1854 , which he edited until his death in 1864 and which was later continued by his wife. After her death, the journal was continued by Léon Vigreux until 1889 and then merged with the Bulletin des fabricants de papier to form the Bulletin-Journal des fabricants de papier .

family

Louis Piette married Magdalena Helena Klauck on March 7, 1839 , the daughter of Mathias Klauck zu Losheim , the mayor of Losheim . His wife died on December 27, 1864.

Works (selection)

  • Traité de la fabrication du papier, contentant les procédés généralement en usage pour preparer ce produit. Paris / Strasbourg: Levrault 1831.
  • Paper manufacture manual . Quedlinburg / Leipzig: Basse 1833
  • The manufacture of paper from straw and many other substances is described on a large scale after numerous experiments and with 160 samples . Cologne: Dumont-Schauberg 1838
  • The usefulness of machines for buyers and workers, along with a few remarks on the mutual obligations of factory owners and workers . Cologne: Dumont-Schauberg 1840
  • Manuel du directeur, du contre-maître et des chefs dʹateliers de papeterie, contenant la description de moyens pratiques pour convertir le chiffon et various plantes en papier avec un appendice sur les succédanés . Paris: Bureau du Journal des fabricants de papier 1861.
  • Appendice du manuel du directeur, du contre-maitre & des chefs dʹateliers de papeterie, contenant une histoire des succédanés et une série de papiers fabriqués sans ou avec un mélange de chiffons . Paris: Bureau du Journal des fabricants de papier 1861.

literature

  • Fritz Hellwig: Louis Piette . In: Saarländische Lebensbilder , Volume 4, Saarbrücken: Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag, 1989, pp. 101–130.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Hellwig: Louis Piette . In: Saarländische Lebensbilder, Volume 4, Saarbrücken: Saarbrücker Druckerei und Verlag 1989, pp. 105f
  2. ↑ Fritz Hellwig 1989, p. 108f
  3. ↑ Fritz Hellwig 1989, pp. 120f.
  4. ↑ a b c Fritz Hellwig 1989, p. 124
  5. ↑ Fritz Hellwig 1989, p. 106
personal data
SURNAME Piette, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valentin, Maria Ludwig (birth name); Piette, Ludwig (German translated name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Prussian paper manufacturer, inventor, publisher and book author
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Commanster, Luxembourg, today: Bého, Belgium
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1862
Place of death Paris