Balthazar George's legend
Balthazar Georges Sage (born March 7, 1740 in Paris ; † September 9, 1824 there ) was a French mineralogist and chemist and the first director of the École des Mines , which he founded in 1783. From 1770 he belonged to the Académie royale des sciences . In 1775 he became a member of the Leopoldina .
Sage was initially employed as a metallurgist and chemist in the mint (in the Hôtel des Monnaies) in Paris. In 1778 he founded a school for mineralogy and mining there, which became the École des Mines by royal decree in 1783. The only other professor was initially Jean-Pierre-François Guillot-Duhamel . In 1790 the management of his school was transferred to the Agence de mines. He went blind in 1805 and died in poverty.
He is less known as a scientist (like his colleague Antoine-Grimald Monnet , long after the discoveries of Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier, he was a supporter of the outdated phlogiston theory and rejected René-Just Haüy's new theories in mineralogy) than by being Organizational talent. Among other things, he built up an important mineral collection at his university, which later came to the Paris Museum of Natural History.
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Individual evidence
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter S. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 24, 2020 (French).
- ↑ List of members Leopoldina, Balthazar-Georges Sagé
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Say, Balthazar Georges |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mineralogist and chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1740 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1824 |
| Place of death | Paris |