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EDLER VON IGNAZ BORN (1742–1791)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 255 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . Educated in a Jesuit See also:college in See also:Vienna, he was for sixteen months a member of the See also:order, but See also:left it and studied See also:law at See also:Prague . Then he travelled extensively in See also:Germany, See also: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 . 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 . 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 . His publications also include Lithophylacium Bornianum (1772–1775) and Bergbaukunde (1789), besides several museum catalogues . Von Born attempted See also:satire with no See also:great success . 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's astronomer at Vienna, are two of his satirical See also:works . 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 . 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 . He took an active part in•the See also:political changes in See also:Hungary . After the death of the See also:emperor See also:Joseph II., the See also:diet of the states of Hungary rescinded many innovations of that ruler, and conferred the rights of See also:denizen on several persons who had been favourable to the cause of the Hungarians, and,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 .

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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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