Georg Ernst Stahl

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Georg Ernst Stahl (October 21st 1660 - May 14th 1734), Chemist and German doctor, born with Ansbach (Bavaria) and died with Berlin.

He studied medicine with Iéna. In 1683, it was part-time lecturer and, in 1687, he became personal doctor of the duke of Saxony-Weimar. It is named professor of Médecine during the creation of the Université of Market in 1693. He taught then the Physiologie, the Pathologie, the Diététique, the Pharmacologie as well as the Botanique. In 1716, he became doctor of the king Frederic-Guillaume Ier from Prussia in Berlin because its fame as a doctor was very large.

It developed the theory of the Phlogistique whose bases were posed by Johann Joachim Becher. Stahl eliminated the traditional alchemical designs and became the first chemist as tel.

Prolific writer (more than 200 writings), it could largely develop his theory of the Phlogistique. Its pupils, whose Johann Junker (1683 - 1759) and Johann Heinrich Pott (1692 - 1777), will take again its theories.

He is known for his participation in the development of the theory of the Phlogistique, which brought an explanation to the Combustion. Although many theories of Stahl were isolated with the profit of more modern theories, its work brought much to the development Chimie.

Author of the system known under the name of Animism, (to summarize to the extreme this medical theory, it was a question of explaining why the heart had a direct influence on health). Attention, not to at that time confuse the direction of this word and the current direction of the word Animism.

External references

Detailed explanations of what was the animism on the site of Imago Mundi

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