FRANZ CARL

See also:

• FRANZ CARL ACHARD (1753-1821)

ACHARD (1753-1821)  , Prussian chemist, was born at Berlin on the 28th of April 1753, and died at Kunern, in Silesia, on the 2oth of April 1821 . He was a pioneer in turning to practical account A . S . Marggraf's discovery of the presence of sugar in beetroot, and by the end of the 18th century he was producing considerable quantities of beet-sugar, though by a very imperfect process, at Kunern, on an estate which was granted him about 'Soo by the king of Prussia . There too he carried on a school of instruction in sugar-manufacture, which had an international reputation . For a time he was director of the physics class of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, and he published several volumes of chemical and physical resea-ches, discovering among other things a method of working platinum .