Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren

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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

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Zum 200. Todestag von Friedrich Albrecht Carl Gren". Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung. 1998-11-22. Retrieved 2022-11-09.

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