EDLER VON IGNAZ See also:BORN (1742–1791)
, See also:Austrian mineralogist and metallurgist, was See also:born of a See also:noble See also:family at Karlsburg, in Transylvania, on the 26th of See also:December 1742
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Educated in a Jesuit See also:college in See also:Vienna, he was for sixteen months a member of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, but See also:left it and studied See also:law at See also:Prague
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Then he travelled extensively in See also:Germany, See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and See also:France, studying See also:mineralogy, and on his return to Prague in 1770 entered the See also:department of mines and the See also:mint
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In 1776 he was appointed by Maria See also:Theresa to arrange the imperial museum at Vienna, where he was nominated to the See also:council of mines and the mint, and continued to reside until his See also:death on the 24th of See also:July 1791
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He introduced a method of extracting metals by amalgamation (Uber See also:des Anquicken der Erse, 1786), and other improvements in See also:mining and other technical processes
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His publications also include Lithophylacium Bornianum (1772–1775) and Bergbaukunde (1789), besides several museum catalogues
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Von Born attempted See also:satire with no See also:great success
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See also:Die Staatsperucke, a See also:tale published without his knowledge in 1772, and an attack on See also:Father See also:Hell, the Jesuit, and See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's astronomer at Vienna, are two of his satirical See also:works
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See also:Part of a satire, entitled Monachologia, in which the monks are described in the technical See also:language of natural See also:history, is also ascribed to him
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Von Born was well acquainted with Latin and the See also:principal See also:modern See also:languages of See also:Europe, and with many branches of See also:science not immediately connected with metallurgy and mineralogy
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He took an active part in•the See also:political changes in See also:Hungary
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After the death of the See also:emperor See also:Joseph II., the See also:diet of the states of Hungary rescinded many innovations of that ruler, and conferred the rights of See also:denizen on several persons who had been favourable to the cause of the Hungarians, and, amongst others, on von Born
.
At the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of his death in 1791, he was employed in See also:writing a See also:work entitled See also:Fasti Leopoldini, probably See also:relating to the prudent conduct of See also:Leopold II., the successor of Joseph, towards the Hungarians
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