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FRANZ ERNST BRUCKMANN (1697–1753)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 678 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ERNST
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BRUCKMANN (1697–1753)  ,
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German mineralogist, was
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born on the 27th of
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September 1697 at Marienthal near Helmstadt . Having qualified as a medical
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man in 1721, he practised at
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Brunswick and afterwards at Wolfenbiittel . His leisure
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time was given up to natural
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history, and especially to
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mineralogy and
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botany . He appears to have been the first to introduce the
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term oolithus to rocks that resemble in structure the
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roe of a
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fish; whence the terms oolite and oolitic . He died at Wolfenbiittel on the 21st of
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March 1753 . He published Magnalia Dei in locis subterraneis (Brunswick, 1727), Historia naturalis curiosa lapidis (1727), and
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Thesaurus subterraneus Ducatus Brunsvigii (1728) .

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