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