Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor

French photographic inventor

Date of Birth: 26-Jul-1805

Place of Birth: Chalon-sur-Saône, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 07-Apr-1870

Profession: photographer, physicist, chemist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Claude Félix Abel Niépce de Saint-Victor (26 July 1805, Saint-Cyr, Saône-et-Loire – 7 April 1870, Paris) was a French photographic inventor.
An army lieutenant and cousin of Nicéphore Niépce, he first experimented in 1847 with negatives made with albumen on glass, a method subsequently used by the Langenheim brothers for their lantern slides.
At his laboratory near Paris, Niépce de Saint-Victor worked on the fixation of natural photographic colour as well as the perfection of his cousin's heliographic process for photomechanical printing.
His method of photomechanical printing, called heliogravure, was published in 1856 in Traité pratique de gravure héliographique.
In the 1850s he also published frequently in La Lumière.



Alternative names	legal name: Gaspard-Félix Tournachon pseudonym: Nadar
Description	French photographer, caricaturist, writer and balloonist
Date of birth/death	6 April 1820	20 March 1910 / 21 March 1910
Location of birth/death	Paris	former 4th arrondissement of Paris
Work period	1854–1910
Work location	Paris
Authority control	: Q40116 VIAF: 84808952 ISNI: 0000 0001 2141 8535 ULAN: 500005199 LCCN: n50014563 NLA: 35553829 WorldCat