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Georg Ernst Stahl

1659 - 1734

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Georg Ernst Stahl (22 October 1659 – 24 May 1734) was a German chemist, physician and philosopher. He was a supporter of vitalism, and until the late 18th century his works on phlogiston were accepted as an explanation for chemical processes. Raised as a son to a Lutheran pastor, he was brought up in a very pious and religious household. From an early age he expressed profound interest in chemistry, by age 15 mastering a set of university lecture notes on chemistry and eventually a difficult treatise by Johann Kunckel. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Ernst Stahl is the 206th most popular chemist (down from 153rd in 2019), the 802nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 836th in 2019) and the 36th most popular German Chemist.

Georg Ernst Stahl is most famous for his theory of phlogiston, which he proposed in 1703. Phlogiston was a substance that was released when something burned.

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Among chemists, Georg Ernst Stahl ranks 206 out of 602. Before him are Herbert C. Brown, Wallace Carothers, Donald J. Cram, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, Robert H. Grubbs, and Robert F. Furchgott. After him are Karl Barry Sharpless, Alan MacDiarmid, James Dewar, Roald Hoffmann, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, and Nikolay Semyonov.

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Among people born in 1659, Georg Ernst Stahl ranks 4. Before him are Henry Purcell, Jacob Roggeveen, and Hyacinthe Rigaud. After him are Henry Every, Royal Noble Consort Huibin Jang, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Sebastiano Ricci, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Pieter van der Aa, Adriaen van der Werff, and Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach. Among people deceased in 1734, Georg Ernst Stahl ranks 1. After him are Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Giovanni Ceva, Rob Roy MacGregor, Sebastiano Ricci, James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, Richard Cantillon, Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, Johann Conrad Dippel, Danylo Apostol, Domenico Trezzini, and Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Ernst Stahl ranks 802 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828), Peter Parler (1330), Albert Göring (1895), Andreas Baader (1943), Jürgen Prochnow (1941), and Johann Joachim Becher (1635). After him are Wilhelm Cuno (1876), Princess Louise of Prussia (1838), David Strauss (1808), Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840), Otto I, Duke of Bavaria (1120), and James Last (1929).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Georg Ernst Stahl ranks 36. Before him are Feodor Lynen (1911), Georg Wittig (1897), Felix Hoffmann (1868), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), Robert Huber (1937), and Johann Deisenhofer (1943). After him are Joachim Frank (1940), Hartmut Michel (1948), August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818), Hennig Brand (1630), Friedrich Sertürner (1783), and Henri Victor Regnault (1810).

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