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Who marketed Liebig’s extract of meat in 1865?
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Justus, baron von Liebig
Justus von Liebig, photograph by F. Hanfstaengl, 1868.
In 1865, the Belgian railway engineer Georg Giebert began to market Liebig’s extract of meat as a nutritious food source for the laboring classes and invalids, with promotional assistance from Justus, baron von Liebig.1