Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren
Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren (1 May 1760 – 26 November 1798) was a German chemist and a native of Bernburg.
He began his career working in a
University of Halle
.
In 1783, he became the assistant to Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten at the University of Halle.[1] In 1790, Friedrich Gren was founder of the Journal der Physik (in 1795-97 called Neues Journal der Physik), which in 1799 was renamed Annalen der Physik by Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert (1769-1824). Today, it is the oldest and one of the best-known journals on physics. He was also the author of a popular textbook on chemistry titled Systematisches Handbuch der gesamten Chemie.
Gren was a major proponent in regards to the existence of
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) demonstrated that combustion required oxygen
, he compromised his beliefs, and postulated that oxygen and phlogiston worked alongside each other.
Selected writings
- Betrachtungen über die Gärung, (Reflections on fermentation), 1784
- Systematisches Handbuch der gesamten Chemie, (Systematic textbook on all chemistry), 1787–1794, last edition- 1819 (1787-1790) Digital edition / (1806-1807) Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Grundriss der Naturlehre, 1787, sixth edition- 1820 Digital 5th edition from 1808 by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
Footnotes
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- ^ "Zum 200. Todestag von Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren". Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung. 1998-11-22. Retrieved 2022-11-09.
References
- This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.
- Victor Carus (1879), "Gren, Friedrich Albert Carl", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 9, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 638