117:, Charles Delvaux received a religious education, which was then seen as a means of upward mobility in the bourgeoisie of the principality. After studying medicine in Paris in the early 19th century, he returned in 1809 to his hometown and then to Liège to practice his profession. Soon, he discovered teaching, first at the Imperial Lyceum from 1810 onwards, then at the University of Liège from its establishment in 1817, where he taught physics, chemistry, and metallurgy. He became rector of the university between 1832 and 1833. After becoming emeritus professor in 1837, he continued to practice medicine in Liège until 1857. He then returned to his native village, where he cared for the less fortunate. He died in 1863 at his estate in Fenffe.
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Charles
Delvaux was a member of various learned societies, including the Free Society of Physical and Medical Sciences of Liège, the Free Society of Emulation of Liège, the Anatomical Society of Paris, the Medical Society of Liège, and a corresponding member of the Medical Society of Antwerp. He was
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His scientific career, in terms of publications, was not extensive; he preferred teaching and popularization. His main works focused on pharmacy inspection, the control of suspicious food, and the conducting of toxicological analyses at the request of the
Prosecutor's Office. He was also a member of
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His main work was carried out through the
Medical Commission of which he was a part. This mainly involved pharmacy inspection, the control of suspicious food, and the conducting of toxicological analyses at the request of the Prosecutor's Office. Although Charles Delvaux intended to write a work on
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was established as part of the
Academy of Liège. Charles was among the four professors and taught physics and chemistry. He was promoted to the rank of university officer. He was then appointed to the Academic Council and obtained his doctorate in sciences, a very rare diploma at the time. His zeal
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In 1817, William I, King of the
Netherlands, founded the University of Liège, and Charles Delvaux joined the Faculty of Sciences. He taught physics, general chemistry applied to the arts, and metallurgy until the reorganization of 1835. Afterwards, he focused solely on chemistry, both general and
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Charles
Delvaux married his first cousin, Louise-Hélène-Clémence Bellefroid, on August 29, 1809. They had eleven children, but only three survived to adulthood. Lucie (1812–1883) became a nun of the Daughters of the Cross congregation, Marie-Charles-Adolphe (1815–1887) became a professor of
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with his uncle. Aligned with the
Bonapartist regime, he went to Paris in 1800 with two of his brothers to study medicine at the Paris School of Medicine. He obtained his doctorate in medicine in 1806. His thesis was titled "Propositions on Respiration," under the direction of
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Delvaux, who was interested in the burgeoning industry, hesitated to continue practicing medicine, but in 1810, the door to teaching opened for him. Ultimately, he would practice all three. In 1810, an decree from the Grand Master of the
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November 1837, at the age of 55, but continued to supervise students for years and practice medicine until 1857. He remained a chemistry examiner within the Medical Commission of the
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and piety, stemming from his religious education and heavily influencing his teaching at the
Imperial Lyceum, his conformity, and his loyalty to the regime, earned him a certain esteem from the ruling power in Paris.
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in Ciergnon. He died on November 14, 1863, at the age of 81, the last surviving professor appointed at the founding of the University of Liège. On November 24, 1863, he was buried in the cemetery of Ciergnon.
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of Saint-Pierre in Liège. At the time, in the Principality of Liège, one of the ways to ascend in the enriched bourgeoisie was to associate with the canons, known as trefoiners, of
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found another specimen in a quarry in the same locality, which he presented to the Geological Society of France on May 21, 1838. In homage to its discoverer, he gave it the name "
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one of the founders of the Natural Sciences Society of Liège and the Royal Society of Sciences of Liège. In 1841, he joined the Royal Academy of Sciences of Belgium and the
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In 1857, at the age of 75, he returned to his ancestral estate in Fenffe, where he cared for the less fortunate despite his infirmities. He notably had to deal with a
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As a chemist, Charles Delvaux determined the composition of a species of ferric phosphate found in the spoil heaps of a lead mine in Berneau. The geologist
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Highly appreciated by his students, he was offered a portrait painted by Barthélemy Vieillevoye in 1853, sixteen years after leaving the university.
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metallurgy at the University of Liège, and Charles-Marie-Joseph (1824–1879) became a doctor of medicine and mayor of Chevetogne. His grandson,
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Apart from his doctoral thesis, he did not publish any works. He was primarily known as a popularizer, particularly in geology.
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course at the Bavaria Hospital in Liège in 1827, which his student, Gilles Peters-Vaust, was in charge of.
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