Désiré van Monckhoven

Désiré Charles Emanuel van Monckhoven (1834–1882) was a Belgian chemist, physicist, and photographic researcher.

[1] Monckhoven studied chemistry and lived at Ghent, in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

Monckhoven also studied photographic optics, publishing Photographische Optik, in 1866.

In 1867 he moved to Vienna and set up a studio with portrait photographer Rabending before returning to Ghent in 1870.

Here he set up a laboratory where he carried out experiments in the ripening of gelatine silver bromide.