Franz Samuel Wild
Franz Samuel Wild (born September 7, 1743 in Bern , † April 26, 1802 in Pully ) was a Swiss geologist and mineralogist .
Wild was in the service of Sardinia from 1765 to 1770 . From 1770 to 1771 he was a sub- librarian in Bern. From 1771 he worked as a salt cashier for the Aigle governorate and from 1779 for Le Bévieux . In 1784 he became chief mining engineer and in 1789 chief miner of the Bern salt pans . In 1784 the Küttigen iron mine was placed under his supervision.
Web links
- René Sigrist / CN: Wild, Franz Samuel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Franz Samuel Wild's estate in the catalog of the Burgerbibliothek Bern
Individual evidence
- ↑ René Sigrist / CN: Wild, Franz Samuel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ Rudolf Wolf (1895): "Biographien zur Kulturgeschichte der Schweiz", p. 272 ff., (Google Books)
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| SURNAME | Wild, Franz Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss geologist and mineralogist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1743 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bern |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1802 |
| Place of death | Pully |