Wilhelm August Lampadius [SEP] place of death
Wilhelm August Lampadius
Wilhelm August Lampadius was born in Hehlen (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) on 8 August 1772 and died on 13 April 1842 in Freiberg. He was a German pharmacist in Göttingen from 1785 until 1791. Also he was an "extraordinary professor" of chemistry and mineralogy in 1794 and an "ordinary professor" in 1795. He taught at the Mining Academy in Freiberg.
Lampadius is best known for inflaming the first coal gas lantern on European ground.
Life and work.
Lampadius completed in five years
commission of the Bavarian Academy of science", Band 17 (1883), S. 578–579, digital full-text edition on Wikisource, URL: http://de.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=ADB:Lampadius,_Wilhelm_August&oldid=2267074
- "Lampadius" In: Partington: History of Chemistry, Volume three, London 1962, p. 596-597.
Web-Link.
- Dietrich, Richard, "Lampadius, Wilhelm August" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 13 (1982), S. 456 f. [Onlinefassung]; URL: http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/ppn118726145.html
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