Gabriel François Venel

Gabriel François Venel (23 August 1723, Tourbes – 29 October 1775, Pézenas) was a French chemist, physician and a contributor to the Encyclopédie,[1] (673 items;[2] articles on chemistry, pharmacy, physiology and medicine).

He is the son of Étienne Venel, physician and Anne Hiché, and was born in Tourbes in 1723.

Venel later on talked very highly of his professor, including in his famous article Chymie written for the Encyclopédie.

As inspecteur général des eaux minérales, with Pierre Bayen (1725–1798), he was tasked in 1753 to provide analysis of French mineral waters.

[3] While often interpreted as an early chemist and Enlightenment thinker, Venel may have been influenced by Alchemy and Iatrochemistry.