Student of Franz Xaver Gebel. Dedicatee of Piano Concerto No.1 by Anton Rubinstein. In 1839 an Alexandre Villoing appears in the Bulletin des lois de la République française making a petition requesting permission to distribute a chemical formula ? so may well have been a polymath as well (as it appears in a different journal: A M. Villoing (^.), rue du Temple, n. 1 19, à Paris , un brevet d'importation et de perfectionnement de dix ans, pour un appareil d'évaporation et de concentration applicable à toute matière liquide. (Du 19 décembre.)) (The name Villoing also turns up in another connection in contemporary papers, which may not be related, not sure: - the "Affair Villoing", in which a Mrs. Villoing - well, it started so: "In July 1829, a woman of the name of Villoing, after being ill for five or six days with bilious symptoms, sent for a physician...")
