Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli

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Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli (born February 14, 1761 in Pavia , † October 24, 1818 ibid) was an Italian chemist .

Luigi Valentino Brugnatelli

Life

He is also cited by the first names Luigi Gaspari and Luigi Vincenzo.

Brugnatelli studied chemistry and medicine at the University of Pavia with the Laurea degree in 1784 on the chemical analysis of gastric juice. His teachers included Giovanni Antonio Scopoli and Lazzaro Spallanzani . He then practiced as a doctor, but continued to deal with chemistry and became a tutor in 1794 and professor of chemistry at the University of Pavia in 1796. In 1813 he became rector of the university.

He was a friend of Alessandro Volta , whom he also accompanied to Paris in 1801 when he demonstrated his battery ( voltaic column ). Brugnatelli experimented with electricity in chemistry, decomposed heavy metal salts and hydrochloric acid with electrolysis (1806) and from 1802 experimented with electroplating and electroplating . He introduced the new chemical concepts and nomenclature of Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier in Italy .

He dealt with the production of blood liquor salt and silver fulminate (with a simpler process than Edward Charles Howard ), with phosphorus, reactions of cobalt compounds with ammonia, phosphorescence and tin-arsenic compounds. He also suggested the use of zinc in household appliances. His Italian pharmacopoeia from 1802 was also important .

In 1791 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and in 1795 a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since 1808 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian and since 1812 of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

His son Gaspare Brugnatelli (1795-1825) was his successor as chemistry professor in Pavia. The mineralogist Luigi Brugnatelli (1859–1928) was his great-grandson and also a professor in Pavia.

Fonts

He was editor of the Biblioteca fisica d'Europa (1788-1791, 20 volumes), the Annali di chimica (1790-1805, 22 volumes), with Valeriano Luigi Brera of the Giornale fisico-medico (1792-1796, 20 volumes) and the Giornale di fisica, chimica e storia natural (1808-1827).

  • with Valeriano Luigi Brera: Commentari medici, 3 volumes, 1797
  • Elementi di chimica appoggiati alle più recenti scoperte chimiche e farmaceutiche, 3 volumes, Pavia 1795–1798
  • Farmacopea ad uso degli speziali e medici moderni della Repubblica italiana, Pavia 1802,
    • French translation: Pharmacopée générale, 2 volumes 1811
  • Trattato elementare di chimica generale, 1795, 1801, 1803, 1810 (four editions)
  • Litilogia umana ossia richerche chimiche e mediche. Opera Postuma del Prof. LV Brugnatelli, pubblicata dal Dott. Gaspare Brugnatelli. Pavia 1819.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry of Lodovigo Valentino Brugnatelli at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 22, 2015.
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 51.
  3. ^ Member entry by Luigi Vincenzo Brugnatelli at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on December 21, 2016.
  4. ^ Members of the previous academies. Luigi Vincenzo Brugnatelli. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on March 3, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Brugnatelli, Luigi Valentino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Pavia
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1818
Place of death Pavia