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GEORG ERNST STAHL (1660-1734)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 760 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ERNST See also:STAHL (1660-1734)  , See also:German chemist and physician, was See also:born on the 2ISt of See also:October 166o at Anspach . Having graduated in See also:medicine at See also:Jena in 1683, he became See also:court physician to the See also:duke of See also:Weimar in 1687 . From 1694 to 1716 he held the See also:chair of medicine at See also:Halle, and was then appointed physician to the See also:king of See also:Prussia in See also:Berlin, where he died on the 14th of May 1734 . In See also:chemistry he is chiefly known in connexion with his See also:doctrine of phlogiston, the essentials of which, however, he owed to J . J . See also:Becher; and he also propounded a view of See also:fermentation which in some respects resembles that supported by See also:Liebig a See also:century and See also:half later . In medicine he professed an animistic See also:system, in opposition to the material-ism of See also:Hermann See also:Boerhaave and See also:Friedrich See also:Hoffmann . The most important of his numerous writings are Zymotechnia fundamentaiis sive fermentations theoria generalis (1697), which contains the phlogistic See also:hypothesis; Specimen Becherianum (1702); Experimenta, observationes, animadversions . . . chymicae et physicae 51731) ; Theoria medica See also:vera (1707) ; Ars sanandi cum expectatione (1730) . STAINER, See also:SIR See also:JOHN (1840-19o1), See also:English composer and organist, was born at See also:Southwark on the 6th of See also:June 184o . He was the second son of the schoolmaster of the See also:parish school of St See also:Thomas's, Southwark, who was enough of a musician to See also:teach his son the See also:organ and the See also:art of See also:reading See also:music, in which he was already proficient when, in 1847, he entered the See also:choir of St See also:Paul's See also:Cathedral . He remained there till 1856, and often took the organ in emergencies; he held the See also:post of organist of St Benet's and St Paul's, Upper See also:Thames See also:Street, during the last See also:year of his choristership; and in 1856 was given the See also:appointment of organist to St See also:Michael's See also:College, See also:Tenbury, where his musical and See also:general See also:education benefited greatly from the intercourse with Sir See also:Frederick See also:Gore See also:Ouseley .

He was appointed to Magdalen College, See also:

Oxford, in 186o, and became university organist in the following year . While at Oxford he did much to bring the choir of Magdalen to a remarkable See also:state of excellence; he took a keen See also:interest in the See also:foundation of various musical See also:societies; and as a sign of his appreciation of the value of general culture, it is See also:worth recording that he took the degree of B.A. in 1864, that of See also:Mus . D. in 1865, and procured M.A. in 1867, being appointed a university examiner in music in the same year . In 1868 he was engaged frequently as See also:solo, organist at the Crystal See also:Palace; and in 1872 was appointed organist of St Paul's, where he raised the See also:standard of choral music to something very like perfection . He was See also:professor of the organ in the See also:National Training School of Music from 1876, and in 1881 succeeded his lifelong friend See also:Sullivan as See also:principal . In 1878 he was a juror at the See also:Paris See also:Exhibition, and was created See also:Chevalier of the See also:Legion d'Honneur . In 1882 he became inspector of music in training colleges . In 1888 he retired from the organistship of St Paul's owing to failing eyesight, and was knighted . In 1889 he succeeded Ouseley as professor of music in the university of Oxford, holding the post till 1899 . Besides these See also:official distinctions he received a See also:great number of honorary degrees: he was See also:vice-See also:president of the Royal College of Organists, and president of the See also:Plain-See also:song and See also:Medieval Music Society, the See also:London Gregorian Association, and the Musical Association . His compositions include four oratorios: See also:Gideon (1865), The Daughter of Jairus (See also:Worcester, 1878), St See also:Mary Magdalen (See also:Gloucester, 1887), Crucifixion (London, 1887); See also:forty-two anthems, some of them very elaborate; many hymn-tunes, organ pieces, madrigals, &c . His professorial lectures were of great value, and he made many contributions to the literature of music .

He was a See also:

man of wide See also:influence, with a remarkable See also:faculty of organization, and his See also:work in regard to the conditions of the musical profession was of considerable importance . His own music has many of the defects of his qualities, for his breadth of See also:artistic views led him to admire and adopt many styles that are not always compatible with each other . He died while on a See also:holiday at See also:Verona on the 31st of See also:March 1901 .

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