Leopold GMELIN

Best-known member of the Gmelin family. He studied medicine and chemistry at Gottingen, Tubingen and See also: Vienna, and in 1813 began to lecture on chemistry at Heidelberg, where in 1814 he was appointed extraordinary, and in 1817 ordinary, professor of chemistry and medicine. He was the discoverer of potassium ferricyanide (1822), and wrote the Handbuch der Chemie (1st ed. 1817?1819, 4th ed. 1843?1855), an important work in its day, which was translated into English for the Cavendish Society by H. Watts (1815?1884) in 1848?18S9. He resigned his chair in 1852, and died on the 13th April in the following year at Heidelberggefunden im Netz: 50. Kunst-Messe München Liste der Meisterwerke Kunstder Antike und außereuropäischen Kunst Siegfried Kuhnke, Fischen Jakob Schlesinger (1792-1855) Bildnisse des Heidelberger Mediziners und Chemikers Prof. Leopold Gmelin (Göttingen 1788-1853 Heidelberg) und seiner Gattin Louise, geb.Maurer, signiert und datiert ?1818? auf dem Damenporträt Öl Auf Leinwand, Original-Rahmen je 78,5 x 59,5 cm Preis: Auf Anfrage

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