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Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (also '''Guyton-Morveau''' after the French Revolution ; January 4, 1737–January 2, 1816) was a French Chemist and Politician . He is credited with producing the first systematic method of Chemical Nomenclature . Guyton de Morveau was born in Dijon , where he served as an avocat, then avocat général, of the Dijon parliament. In 1782 he resigned this post to dedicate himself to chemistry, collaborating on the '' Encyclopédie Méthodique '' and applying himself to industrial applications. In this role he performed various useful services, and founded La Société des Mines et Verreries de Saint-Bérain-sur-Dheune. During the French Revolution , Guyton de Morveau (then styled Guyton-Morveau) served as Procureur général syndic of the Côte-d'Or département in 1790, and was elected a deputy to the Legislative Assembly in 1792. Although a member of the right wing, he voted in favor of the execution of Louis XIV . He served on the Committee Of Public Safety from April 6, 1793 to July 10, 1793, when he resigned in order to devote his time to the manufacture of firearms, and formation of a corps of Balloonist s for the army. He himself flew in a balloon during the Battle Of Fleurus on June 26, 1794, and assisted in several other battles. Guyton de Morveau was among the founders of the École Polytechnique and the École De Mars , and was a professor of minerology at the Polytechnique, and its director in 1797. He became a first-class member of the Académie Des Sciences in chemistry, on November 20, 1795, and subsequently elected vice-president of the class (1806) and then president (1807). He served on the Council Of Five Hundred from 1797, elected from Ille-et-Vilaine , and was Treasury administrator in 1799. Guyton de Morveau was made a Baron in 1811, and died in Paris on January 2, 1816. |
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