See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

CHRISTIAN See also:

• FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

FRIEDRICH See also:

• CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH SCHONBEIN (1799-1868)

SCHONBEIN (1799-1868)  , chemist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Metzingen, See also:

• SWABIA, SUABIA

Swabia, on the 18th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1799, and died at Sauersberg, near See also:

• BADEN
• BADEN, GRAND DUCHY OF

Baden Baden, on the 29th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1868 . After studying at See also:

• TUBINGEN

Tubingen and See also:

• ERLANGEN

Erlangen, he taught See also:

• CHEMISTRY
• CHEMISTRY (formerly "chymistry"; Gr. xvµela; for derivation see ALCHEMY)

chemistry and physics, first at Keilhau, Thuringia, and then at See also:

• EPSOM

Epsom, See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, but most of his See also:

• LIFE

life was spent at See also:

• BASEL (Fr. Bale)
• BASEL (Fr. Belle, but Basle is a wholly erroneous form; Ital. Basilea)
• BASEL, CONFESSION OF
• BASEL, COUNCIL OF

Basel, where he undertook the duties of the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of chemistry and physics in 1828 and was appointed full See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor in 1835 . His name is chiefly known in connexion with See also:

• OZONE

ozone, which he began to investigate in 1839, and with See also:

• GUNCOTTON

guncotton, which he prepared and applied as a propellant in See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire-arms See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early in 1846 . He was a most prolific writer, 364 papers appearing under his name in the Royal Society's See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

Catalogue, and he carried on a large See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence with other men of See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, such as See also:

• BERZELIUS, JONS JAKOB (1779-1848)

Berzelius, See also:

• FARADAY, MICHAEL (1791-1867)

Faraday, See also:

• LIEBIG, JUSTUS VON, BARON (1803-1873)

Liebig and See also:

• WOHLER, FRIEDRICH (1800-1882)

Wohler . Many of his letters together with a life will be found in G . W . A . Kahlbaum's Monographien aus der Geschichte der Chemie, vols. iv. and vi . (1899 and 1901) .