Georg Friedrich Stabel
Georg Friedrich Stabel (born February 2, 1687 in Bielitz , † December 28, 1782 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German chemist and doctor.
Life
Stabel studied medicine at the University of Halle from 1706 and received his doctorate there in 1708. He then studied in Wittenberg and from 1711 in Leiden, where he received his doctorate again in the same year. From 1722 he can be traced back to Halle. In 1723 he applied in vain to receive an extraordinary professorship at the university after lecturing for six months. In 1726 he was granted citizenship and in 1728 he became an adjunct of the city physician in Halle.
He is known for his book Chymiae Dogmatico Experimentalis , which was published in Halle in 1728, the year he died. The chapter on the principles of chemistry contained therein appeared as a German translation as the corresponding section in Zedler's Universal Lexikon . In it, he ties in approaches to atomistics to Daniel Sennert , Robert Boyle and Georg Ernst Stahl . He criticized Johann Joachim Becher's theory of the three types of earth (one of the foundations of the later phlogiston theory of steel) and attacked the phlogiston theory (referring to Becher and not mentioning steel) by referring to weight gain when calcifying metals (oxidizing). This was the first published refutation of the phlogiston theory, but it went largely unnoticed.
Hermann Kopp referred to Stabel as an early opponent of the phlogiston theory, and Max Speter in more detail .
Fonts
- Chimiae dogmatico experimentalis . Halle / Magdeburg 1728
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists . Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 404
- Principles, chemical. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 29, Leipzig 1741, columns 516-522.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hermann Kopp : The development of chemistry in recent times . 1873, p. 53, archive.org
- ↑ Historiochemical Allerlei . In: Julius Ruska (ed.): Studies on the history of chemistry . Festgabe Edmund v. Lippmann. Springer 1927, p. 221
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stabel, Georg Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist and doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1687 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1782 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |