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JOHANN NEPOMUK VON FUCHS (1774-1856)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 272 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEPOMUK VON See also:FUCHS (1774-1856)  , See also:German chemist and mineralogist, was See also:born at Mattenzell, near Baennberg in the Bavarian See also:Forest, on the 15th of May 1774 . In 1807 he became See also:professor of See also:chemistry and See also:mineralogy at the university of See also:Landshut, and in 1823 See also:conservator of the mineralogical collections at See also:Munich, where he was appointed professor of mineralogy three years later, on the removal thither of the university of Landshut . He retired in 1852, was ennobled by the See also:king of See also:Bavaria in 1854, and died at Munich on the 5th of See also:March 1856 . His name is chiefly known for his mineralogical observations and for his See also:work on soluble See also:glass . His collected See also:works, including Ober den Einfluss der Chemie and Mineralogie (1824), See also:Die Naturgeschichte See also:des Mineralreichs (1842), See also:Liber die Theorien der Erde (1844), were published at Munich in 1856 .

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