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Dec. 28, 1818, Frankfurt am Main
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June 11, 1897, Wiesbaden, Prussia (aged 78)
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Carl Remigius Fresenius

German chemist
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Carl Remigius Fresenius (born Dec. 28, 1818, Frankfurt am Main—died June 11, 1897, Wiesbaden, Prussia) was a German analytical chemist whose textbooks on qualitative analysis (1841) and quantitative analysis (1846) became standard works. They passed through many editions and were widely translated.

Apprenticed to an apothecary (1836), he became an assistant to Justus von Liebig at the University of Giessen (1841) and a privatdocent (1843). From 1845 he was active in scientific and technological education and research at Wiesbaden. Many of his papers appeared in the Zeitschrift für Analytische Chemie (“Journal of Analytical Chemistry”), which he founded (1862) and edited until his death.

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