Monument to Pompejus Alexander Bolley, 1871

Monument to Pompejus Alexander Bolley, 1871

Johann Ludwig Keiser (1816-1890)

About the person

Pompejus Alexander Bolley (1812-1870, chemist, Germany/Switzerland) studied mineralogy, mining and chemistry and taught technical, pharmaceutical and forensic chemistry, agricultural chemistry and toxicology at the newly founded ETH Zurich. As president of the Natural Research Society of Zurich, Bolley was part of an ‘imperial network’ whose European project of scientific exploration and explanation of the world was historically inseparable from conquest and exploitation.

Art Inventory ETH Zurich, Ki-00003

Further contextual information on Pompejus Alexander Bolley (1812–1870)

Factsheet

  • Marble, stucco
  • ETH Zurich, Zentrum, main building
  • Level E, stairway E 60
  • Mon–Fri, 6.00–22.00
  • Sat, Sun, 8.00–17.00

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