Education
Ghent University.
chemist Photographer physicist scientist
Ghent University.
He was also an inventor and author He wrote several of the earliest books on photography and photographic optics. His original French works were later translated to English and other languages.
He invented or developed an enlarger (1864), a dry collodion process (1871), improvements of the carbon print process (1875-1880), and improved silver-bromide gelatine emulsions.
1857 – Méthodes simplifiées de photographie sur papier (Simplified methods of photography on paper).