DIRECTORY_1997#460 new approved FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen conventionDeclaration ISAAR(CPF): Internationale norm voor archivistische geautoriseerde beschrijvingen van organisaties, personen en families, Antwerpen/Leuven/Amsterdam 2006. detailLevel http://ica-atom.org/doc/RS-2#5.4 created January 2, 2015 9:28:35 AM CET human revised June 25, 2025 4:18:15 PM CEST human Person (Male) person Breyer, Albert (Albrecht) conventionDeclaration Amateur conventionDeclaration Berlin [Prussia], 1812 - Brussels, 1876 1839 * Liège

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<b>1839 * Liège</b> Frédéric Martin Albert, ° 16.10.1812; + 9.8.1876. A medical student in Liège since 1837 after fleeing Germany for his revolutionary activities, in the spring of 1839 Breyer invented the eponymous Breyerotype (reflectography) - ancestor of the photocopy - which enabled direct positive copies to be obtained on paper of engravings, drawings and written documents. Samples were twice filed at the "Académie royale des Sciences de Belgique", on 4.8.1839 and 9.11.1839. They were copies of engravings: the town halls of Louvain and Mons, and some plants. Apparently, Breyer did not continue his photographic experiments after 1839. In 1841, he was an ophthalmologist established in Brussels, Rue de la Régence, 16. Throughout his life, Breyer was active in radical left-wing circles and was an intimate of Karl Marx during the latter's stay in Brussels from 1845 to 1848. Founder member of the "Société royale belge d'entomologie" in 1855. Artist and radical Gustave Courbet painted Breyer's wife, Fanny Breyer - Van Bruyssel, in oils in 1858.