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Why is Ethyne called acetylene? The name was invented by French chemist Marcelin-Pierre-Eugène Berthelot (1823-1907) in 1864, from the French acétylène. This was derived from the chemical ending ene + acetyl, which the German chemist Justus von Liebig coined acetic acid in 1839.