Andre Laugier

See also: Laugier

André Laugier (Lisieux, 1770 - Paris, April 19th 1832) is a chemist and a mineralogist French.

He makes his studies in Paris and will initiate himself with the Chimie in the laboratory of Antoine-François Fourcroy (1755-1809), his cousin.

He engages in the revolutionary army in 1792, he makes countryside for six months. On its return, it is charged to use the bells of the churches of the areas in the west of the France in order to transform them into raw material for military industry or the striking of the currencies.

On recommendation of Fourcroy, it is recruited in 1794 with the direction of the office of control of the powders and salpetres, function which it leaves at the end of one year and half. He undertakes then studies of Pharmacie and obtains his control in 1797.

He engages like Pharmacien in the Napoleonean army on the way for the Egypt but sick, he cannot leave the France and remains with Toulon. There, it gives courses of chemistry and Botanique, in particular at the central school of the Var. In 1799, it teaches pharmacy with Lille.

In 1803, Fourcroy gives him a post of assistance-naturalist to the national Muséum of natural history of Paris like its substitution with the pulpit of chemistry. It obtains the same year, the pulpit of natural history of the drugs at the school of pharmacy.

It succeeds Fourcroy in 1811 with the pulpit of chemistry of the Natural history museum and the direction ensures some several moments. It makes appear, in 1828, a Cours of general chemistry in two volumes.

In 1829, it obtains the direction of the school of pharmacy to dead the Nicolas Louis Vauquelin (1763-1829). The financial position of Laugier forever be brilliant and Laugier must cumulate many functions in parallel with its main activities. He died of the Choléra

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