Professor A.-C. Hollande at the School of Pharmacy of Nancy, 1912-1922

André-Charles Hollande, born in Chambéry in 1881, obtained his pharmacy degree and science doctorate in Lyon and Grenoble. He came to the School of Pharmacy in Nancy in 1912 as director of studies in micrography and lecturer in natural history. During the war, while he was mobilized (1914-1917), he was head of the chemical and bacteriological laboratory of Chambéry and worked on clinical chemistry and bacteriology. Professor of natural history in Nancy in January 1920, professor of bacteriology some months after, he left Nancy for Montpellier in 1922. His research in Nancy was devoted to zoology (cytology of insects), parasitology, bacteriology (discovery of 5 bacterial species), clinical chemistry and technics (determination of simulations, histology), and finally cytology and colorations. He was also pharmacist inspector for the towns of Chaumont (Haute-Marne) and Epinal (Vosges).