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Edme-Jean Baptiste Bouillon-Lagrange

1764 – 1844

French chemist and pharmacist

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Lived 1764 – 1844 (aged 80). Edme-Jean Baptiste Bouillon-Lagrange was a French chemist and pharmacist.

Edme-Jean Baptiste Bouillon-Lagrange (12 July 1764, Paris – 23 August 1844) was a French chemist and pharmacist. He was a professor of chemistry at the École supérieure de pharmacie de Paris, later serving as director of the school.

He was owner of a pharmacy on Rue Saint-Martin in Paris. Being influenced by Antoine François Fourcroy and Claude Louis Berthollet, in 1789 he began devoting his time and energies to chemical research. Subsequently, he became an instructor at the Ecole de pharmacie in Paris.

He served as a military pharmacist during the Napoleonic campaigns. In 1806 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Strasbourg, afterwards serving as a personal physician to Empress Josephine. He had spent twelve years as director of the Ecole de pharmacie at the time of his death on 23 August 1844, aged 80.

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University of Strasbourg
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Knight of the Legion of Honour

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French chemist and pharmacist (1764-1844)

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Edme-Jean Baptiste Bouillon-Lagrange was born on 12 July 1764 in Paris.

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Edme-Jean Baptiste Bouillon-Lagrange died on 23 August 1844 in Paris.

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Edme-Jean Baptiste Bouillon-Lagrange was a chemist and pharmacist.

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Edme-Jean Baptiste Bouillon-Lagrange was French.

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· Wikipedia: Edme-Jean Baptiste Bouillon-Lagrange

· Wikidata: Q385701

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