THEYE 



CARLOS THEYE Y SHOSTE 



Scientist; teacher. 



Carlos Theye y Shoste was born at 

 Havana on the twenty-third of October, 

 1853. He was educated at Paris, where 

 he obtained the degree of Bachelor of 

 Sciences at the Sorbonne, in 187 1. He 

 also completed courses at the Ecole Cen- 

 trale in Paris, obtaining the degree of 

 Engineer in Chemistry, and he received at 

 Barcelona, in Spain, the degree of Industrial 

 Engineer. He was instructor in Chemistry 

 at the Ecole Centrale of Paris, and in 1882 

 became Professor of Physics and Chemistry 

 at the Havana School of Agriculture. In 

 1885 he was named Professor of Chemistry 

 at the University of Havana, a position 

 which he holds at the present day. In 1904 

 he was a member of the Commission ap- 

 pointed by the Cuban Government in 



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