Charles Lauth

{{Short description|French chemist}}

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Charles Lauth (1836–1913) was a French chemist. He synthesised methyl violet.{{citation | last=Lauth | first=C. | year=1867 | title= On the new aniline dye, 'Violet de Paris' | journal=Laboratory | volume=1 | pages=138–139 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QlYEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA138 }}

In 1883 he was elected president of the Chemical Society of France.{{cite book |last1=Nielsen |first1=Anita Kildebæk |last2=Štrbáňová |first2=Soňa |year=2008 |title=Creating Networks in Chemistry: The Founding and Early History of Chemical Societies in Europe |publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry |page=105 |isbn=9780854042791}}