Boussingault, JEAN BAPTISTE

Boussingault, JEAN BAPTISTE, a French agricultural chemist, was born at Paris in 1802, and after a visit to South America, where he served as a colonel under Bolivar, became professor of Chemistry at Lyons, in 1839 was admitted into the Institute, and in 1857 was made commander of the Legion of Honour. His Économie Rurale (1844; Eng. trans. 1845) embodies the investigations which made him famous. Of four or five other works the most important is Agronomic, Chimie agricole, et Physiologie (7 vols. 1860-84). He died 12th May 1887.