1. Eilhard Mitscherlich was educated at Jever by the historian Friedrich Christoph Schlosser, and in 1811 went to the University of Heidelberg devoting himself to philology, with an emphasis on the Persian language.
15 Facts About Eilhard Mitscherlich
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The abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814 put an end to this, and Eilhard Mitscherlich resolved to study medicine in order that he might enjoy that freedom of travel usually allowed in the East to physicians.
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Eilhard Mitscherlich began at Gottingen with the study of chemistry, and this so arrested his attention that he gave up his idea of traveling to Persia.
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In 1818 Eilhard Mitscherlich went to Berlin and worked in the laboratory of Heinrich Friedrich Link.
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Eilhard Mitscherlich returned to Berlin in 1821, and in the summer of 1822 he delivered his first lecture as extraordinary professor of chemistry at the university; in 1825 he was appointed ordinary professor.
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In 1823 Eilhard Mitscherlich was elected as foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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In 1833 Eilhard Mitscherlich made a series of careful determinations of the vapor densities of a large number of volatile substances, confirming the law of Gay-Lussac.
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Eilhard Mitscherlich obtained selenic acid in 1827 and showed that its salts are isomorphous with the sulphates, while a few years later he proved that the same thing is true of the manganates and the sulfates, and of the permanganates and the perchlorates.
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Eilhard Mitscherlich investigated the relation of benzene to benzoic acid and to other derivatives.
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Eilhard Mitscherlich kept working on problems of organic chemistry until 1845.
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Eilhard Mitscherlich was an honorary member of almost all the great scientific societies, and received the gold medal from the Royal Society of London for his discovery of the law of isomorphism.
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Eilhard Mitscherlich was one of the few foreign associates of the French Institute.
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In December 1861, symptoms of heart disease made their appearance, but Eilhard Mitscherlich was able to carry on his academic work until December 1862.
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Eilhard Mitscherlich died at Schoneberg near Berlin in 1863 and was buried in the St Matthaus Kirchhof Cemetery in Schoneberg close to the gravesites of Gustav Kirchhoff and Leopold Kronecker.
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Eilhard Mitscherlich published, according to the "Catalogue of Scientific Papers", some 76 papers, which appeared chiefly in the "Abhandlungen der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin", in Poggendorff's Annalen, and in the Annales de chimie et de physique.