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FRANZ LUDWIG VON CANCRIN (1738-1812)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 177 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANZ See also:LUDWIG VON See also:CANCRIN (1738-1812)  , See also:German mineralogist and metallurgist, was See also:born on the 21st of See also:February 1738, at Breitenbach, See also:Hesse-See also:Darmstadt . In 1764 he entered the service of the See also:landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt at See also:Hanau, be-coming See also:professor of See also:mathematics at the military See also:academy, See also:head of the See also:civil See also:engineering See also:department of the See also:state, director of the See also:theatre and (1774) of the See also:mint . A See also:work on the See also:copper mines of Hesse (1767) earned him a See also:European reputation, and in 1783 he accepted from See also:Catherine II. of See also:Russia the directorship of the famous Staraya See also:salt-See also:works, living thenceforth in Russia . In 1798 he became a councillor of state at St See also:Petersburg . He published many works on See also:mineralogy and metallurgy, of which the most important, the Grundzuge der See also:Berg- and Salzwerkskunde (13 vols., See also:Frankfort, 1773-1791), has been translated into several See also:languages: His son, See also:Count Georg von See also:Cancrin, or Kankrin (1774-1845), was the eminent See also:Russian See also:minister of See also:finance .

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