Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé

Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé (Weltevreden, Java 14 June 1818 – Mons, Belgium 19 July 1851) was a Belgian nobleman and convicted murderer.

In 1851, the chemist Jean Servais Stas proved that Visart de Bocarmé had used nicotine extracted from tobacco leaves as poison.

Visart de Bocarmé was born aboard a ship heading to Java, where his father had signed to serve as vice-governor.

[3] As Gustave was unmarried and of weak constitution, Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé assumed he would inherit the fortune soon.

[3] The well-known Belgian chemist Jean Servais Stas then proved with a toxicologic examination that Visart de Bocarmé had used tobacco extract to poison his brother-in-law.

In the early 1990s, the Brussels Comédie Claude Volter showed the play Nicotine et guillotine, which was also based on Count Bocarmés case.