After serving briefly as professor of physics at the Dijon Lycée in 1848 , he became professor of chemistry at the University of Strasbourg , where he met and courted Marie Laurent , daughter of the university 's rector in 1849 .
After serving briefly as professor of physics at Dijon Lycée in 1848 , he became professor of chemistry at the University of Strasbourg , where he met and courted Marie Laurent , daughter of the university 's rector , in 1849 .