Antoine-Augustin Parmentier

Antoine Augustin Parmentier ( born August 17, 1737 Montdidier, † December 17, 1813 in Paris) was a French pharmacist and agronomist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " parm. ".

Life

Parmentier learned in Montdidier and in Paris the pharmacy and acted in 1757 at the hospitals operating in the Hannover army and since 1766 at the Royal Invalidenhaus.

As for the famine in 1769, the Académie française in Paris a price on the best treatise on those vegetables exposed, which could replace the bread itself Parmentier earned this award through his writing on potato cultivation, to its distribution in France, he significantly in the sequence with contributed. He is rumored to have had a guard of soldiers potato field to represent the tubers to be particularly valuable. On the night he left pull the guards and the local farmers brought the plant to grow them yourself.

Even otherwise, he acquired by agriculture and industry manifold merits. During the Continental System he worked on Napoleon command with the production of grapes and sugar beets. The army hospitals received by him some convenient means. Under the Konsularregierung he was Inspector General of the Medizinalwesens.

At the age of 76 years Antoine Parmentier died on December 17, 1813 and found his final resting place in Père Lachaise. His native city, erected to him a statue.

Ehrentaxon

He was the genus Parmentiera DC in honor. the plant family Bignoniaceae ( Bignoniaceae ) named.

Because of his service to the potato growing a popular French variant of a mashed potato souffle Hachi Parmentier is mentioned.

Works (selection)

  • The Art Brod Erdäpffeln to bake without mixing with any Getraidemehl. Publisher Bartholomew, Augsburg, 1779.
  • The art to manufacture all kinds of spirits and vinegar. Publisher Supprian, Leipzig 1802.
  • Code pharmaceutique à l'Usage des Hospices civils, the Secours à Domicile et des Prisons. Méquignon, Paris 1803 ( digitized )
  • Recent studies and observations about the different types of milk in relation to the chemistry that Arzneykunde and agriculture. Voigt, Leipzig, 1805.
  • Discussion of the advantages which can be gained from the Getraide in relation to agriculture and trade, the milling and baking. Hahn, Hannover 1806.
  • Code pharmaceutique à l'Usage des Hospices civils, the Secours à Domicile, et des Maisons d' Infirmeries Arrêt par Antoine Augustin Parmentier. Publié par Ordre du Ministre de l' Intérieur. Méquignon, Paris 4e. ed in 1811 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
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