Background
Brongniart was born in Paris on the 5th of February 1770. He was the son of the eminent architect who designed the Bourse and other public buildings of Paris.
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At an early age, Alexandre studied chemistry, under Lavoisier, and after passing through the Eсоlе des Mines he took honors.
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Brongniart was born in Paris on the 5th of February 1770. He was the son of the eminent architect who designed the Bourse and other public buildings of Paris.
At an early age, Alexandre studied chemistry under Lavoisier, and after passing through the Eсоlе des Mines he took honors at the Ecole de Medecine.
Alexandre was an instructor at the École de Mines (Mining School) in Paris and appointed in 1800 by Napoleon's minister of the interior Lucien Bonaparte a director of the revitalized porcelain manufactory at Sèvres, holding this role until death.
In 1816 he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences, and in the following year, he visited the Alps of Switzerland and Italy, and afterwards Sweden and Norway.
The result of his observations was published from time to time in the Journal des Mines and other scientific journals.
His other principal works are: Traite elementaire de mineralogie, avec des applications aux arts (Paris, 1807); Histoire naturelle des crustaces fossiles (Paris, 1822); Classification et caracteres mineralogiques des roches homogenes et heterogenes (Paris, 1827); the Tableau des terrains, qui composent I' ecorce du globe (Paris, 1829).
In 1823, Alexandre Brongniart was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the French Academy of Sciences.