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Neyt, Adolphe L.
Identity
Category
Person (Male)
Alternative name or descriptor
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Status
- Amateur
Details
Life dates
Ghent, 1830 - Ostend, 1892
Activity
1860 * - 1892 + Gand
Adolphe Guillaume Liévin, ° 13.4.1830; + 21.9.1892. Owner of a sugar refinery. Keen amateur of photography applied to scientific research. His most productive period was the 1860s. He was inspired by the work of French photographer Auguste Bertsch (1813-1870) to make enlargements of microscopic objects around 1862, but his output in this domain did not meet with the success he had hoped for at the “Académie Royale des Sciences de Belgique". Member of the “Société française de Photographie" from 1.7.1864. Astronomical photographs: he projected the focal image of his telescope directly onto sensitive plates, slightly enlarged by means of a negative lens. Twelve prints of the moon collected in an album in 1869 and presented to the “Académie Royale des Sciences de Belgique".
Founder member of the ABP. On publication of a seascape in the Bulletin of the ABP in 1882, Gustave De Vylder added the remark: "Our readers will doubtless rejoice with us at Neyt's return to photography". Joint author, with Edouard Van Beneden (see that name), of "Nouvelles recherches sur la fécondation et la division mitosique chez l'ascaride mégalocéphale", Leipzig, Wilh. Engelmann, 1887, containing 24 photomicrographs printed in collotype from Neyt's negatives. Nestor Schaffers (see that name) signed as a witness on his death certificate.
Adolphe Guillaume Liévin, ° 13.4.1830; + 21.9.1892. Owner of a sugar refinery. Keen amateur of photography applied to scientific research. His most productive period was the 1860s. He was inspired by the work of French photographer Auguste Bertsch (1813-1870) to make enlargements of microscopic objects around 1862, but his output in this domain did not meet with the success he had hoped for at the “Académie Royale des Sciences de Belgique". Member of the “Société française de Photographie" from 1.7.1864. Astronomical photographs: he projected the focal image of his telescope directly onto sensitive plates, slightly enlarged by means of a negative lens. Twelve prints of the moon collected in an album in 1869 and presented to the “Académie Royale des Sciences de Belgique".
Founder member of the ABP. On publication of a seascape in the Bulletin of the ABP in 1882, Gustave De Vylder added the remark: "Our readers will doubtless rejoice with us at Neyt's return to photography". Joint author, with Edouard Van Beneden (see that name), of "Nouvelles recherches sur la fécondation et la division mitosique chez l'ascaride mégalocéphale", Leipzig, Wilh. Engelmann, 1887, containing 24 photomicrographs printed in collotype from Neyt's negatives. Nestor Schaffers (see that name) signed as a witness on his death certificate.
Locations
1860 * - 1892 + Gand
Exhibitions
Brussels, 1861 (medal); London, 1862; Porto, 1865; Paris, 1867 (silver medal); Vienna, 1873; Brussels, 1875; Brussels, 1880; Ghent, 1889 (botanical photomicrographs).
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Bibliography/Webography
FRISON, Ed. "Adolphe Neyt 1830-1892 en zijn bijdrage tot de opkomst en ontwikkeling van de fotomicrografie en de astrofotografie in de 19de eeuw", Scientiarum Historia, vol. 9, 1967, pp. 65-74.
BALaT - Neyt, Adolphe: http://balat.kikirpa.be/people.php?priref=215283
Context
Affiliations
Affiliated entity
Association belge de Photographie
Type of affiliation
Member of
Dates of affiliation
1874 - 1892
Description of relationship
Management
Record source
DIRECTORY_1997#5320
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation/revision
SFJ revised 12.7.2018; MCC revised 25.1.2019; SFJ revised 13.8.2022 based on information supplied by M. Demaeght; MD revised 18.10.2022, 12.9.2023, 20.10.2023 & 16.10.2024