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Antoine Meyer

Died in 1857

Antoine Meyer was born on 31 May 1801 in Luxembourg, the son of a shoemaker. A pupil at the Athénée, where he attended the literary circle of Heinrich Stammer, he studied mathematics at Liège and in 1825-1826 followed courses at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France. He taught at Echternach, at the Military Academy in Breda and at Leuven, defended his doctorate at Liège in 1832, then taught in Brussels, notably at the Free University from 1838 to 1849, before holding a chair at the University of Liège until his death. Having become Belgian, he died in Liège on 29 April 1857.

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