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Antoine-Augustin Parmentier

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier is known for French agronomist, naturalist, nutritionist, and hygienist; promoter of the potato as a food source in Europe. Antoine-Augustin Parmentier was born on 12 August 1737.

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Antoine-Augustin Parmentier is best known for French agronomist, naturalist, nutritionist, and hygienist; promoter of the potato as a food source in Europe. Antoine-Augustin Parmentier is a French public figure. Antoine-Augustin Parmentier was born on 12 August 1737, which places Antoine-Augustin Parmentier among the people in the Dead or Alive catalog born in the 1730s. Dead or Alive is a trivia game: you decide whether a famous person is still alive, then see the answer. The status for Antoine-Augustin Parmentier is checked against public sources such as Wikidata and is shown only after you answer.

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Known for: French agronomist, naturalist, nutritionist, and hygienist; promoter of the potato as a food source in Europe
Nationality: French
Born: 12 August 1737

About Antoine-Augustin Parmentier

His many other contributions to nutrition and health included establishing the first mandatory smallpox vaccination campaign in France (under Napoleon beginning in 1805, when he was Inspector-General of the Health Service) and pioneering the extraction of sugar from sugar beets. Parmentier also founded a school of breadmaking and studied methods of conserving food, including refrigeration. While serving as an army pharmacist for France in the Seven Years' War, he was captured by the Prussians, and in prison in Prussia was faced with eating potatoes, known to the French only as hog feed. The potato had been introduced from South America to Europe by the Spaniards at the beginning of the 16th century. It was introduced to the rest of Europe by 1640 but (outside Spain and Ireland) was usually used only for animal feed. King Frederick II of Prussia had required peasants to cultivate the plants under severe...

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Antoine-Augustin Parmentier is known for French agronomist, naturalist, nutritionist, and hygienist; promoter of the potato as a food source in Europe.

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Antoine-Augustin Parmentier was born on 12 August 1737.

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