Achille Mntz

Vocation

French agricultural chemist who made special research on the feeding of cattle and horses, and, following Jean-Baptiste Boussingault's method, tested his theories by practice on great herds, on Parisian cab horses, and, in the case of his contributions to viniculture, in various vineyards. He served as director of the Bibliothèque de l'Enseignement Agricole. He published the results of his experiments in the Annales of the Agricultural Institute, and other chemical and agricultural journals, and wrote four books. He studied under Boussingault in Paris, and, after acting as his assistant for ten years, succeeded him as director of the chemical laboratories in the Institut National Agronomique (1887–1914). From 1907 to 1914 he was also director of the research station for plant chemistry at Meudon (Collège de France). He was a member of the Académie des sciences (1896–1917) and the Académie d'Agriculture (from 1915). He died in Paris on 20 February 1917, aged 70. Link to Wikipedia biography