Alexandre Edouard Baudrimont (7 May 1806 – 24 January 1880) was a 19th-century French professor of chemistry who published various books connected to the sciences, languages and the Basque Country (in particular

Erromintxela Erromintxela () is the distinctive language of a group of Romani living in the Basque Country, who also go by the name Erromintxela. It is sometimes called ''Basque Caló'' or ''Errumantxela'' Matras, Y. ''A Linguistic Introduction'' Cambridge ...

): * ''Dictionnaire de l'industrie manufacturière, commerciale et agricole'' (1837, Paris) * ''Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur le développement du fœtus: et en particulier sur l'évolution embryonnaire des oiseaux et des batraciens'' (with Martin Saint-Ange, G.J.) (1846) * ''Histoire des Basques ou Escualdunais primitifs, restaurée d'après la langue, les caractères ethnologiques et les mœurs des Basques actuels'' (1854, Paris) * ''Vocabulaire de la langue des Bohémiens habitant les Pays Basque Français'' (1862, Bordeaux) In the field of science he is best known for first preparation of Na₃P in the mid-19th century by reacting molten sodium with

phosphorus pentachloride Phosphorus pentachloride is the chemical compound with the formula PCl5. It is one of the most important phosphorus chlorides, others being PCl3 and POCl3. PCl5 finds use as a chlorinating reagent. It is a colourless, water-sensitive and moist ...

.Baudrimont. ''Ann. Chim. Phys.'' 1864, volume 2, 13.

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Basque-language scholars Romani language 19th-century French chemists French Romani people 1806 births 1880 deaths {{france-chemist-stub