Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
|
See also:BENJAMIN See also:NICOLAS See also:MARIE See also:APPERT (1797-1847) , See also:French philanthropist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the loth of See also:September 1797 . While a See also:young See also:man he introduced a See also:system of mutual instruction into the regimental See also:schools of the See also:department of the See also:Nord . The success which it obtained induced him to publish a See also:Manual setting forth his system . While engaged in teaching prisoners at Montaigu, he See also:fell under the suspicion of having connived at the See also:escape of two of them, and was thrown into the See also:prison of La Force . On his See also:release he resolved to devote the See also:rest of his See also:life to bettering the See also:condition of those whose See also:lot he had for a See also:time shared, and he travelled much over See also:Europe for the purpose of studying the various systems of prison discipline, and wrote several books on the subject . After the revolution of 183o he became secretary to See also:Queen See also:Marie Amelie, and organized the See also:measures taken for the See also:relief of the needy . He was decorated with the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in 1835 . His See also:brother, See also:FRANCOIS See also:APPERT (d . 1840), was the inventor of the method of preserving See also:food by enclosing it in hermetically sealed tins; he See also:left a See also:work entitled See also:Art de conserver See also:les substances animales et vt g6lables . |
|
|
[back] CHARLES JAMES APPERLEY (1777-1843) |
[next] VIA APPIA |
There are no comments yet for this article.
Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
Links to articles and home page are encouraged.