13 Facts About Leopold Gmelin

Leopold Gmelin worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test, and wrote his Handbook of Chemistry, which over successive editions became a standard reference work still in use.

Leopold Gmelin returned to Tubingen and again heard the lectures of Ferdinand Gottlieb Gmelin and Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer.

In February 1811, Leopold Gmelin clashed with the medical student Gutike, according to an insult he challenged him to a duel, without serious injuries.

Until 1813, Leopold Gmelin went on an extensive study trip through Italy.

Together with his cousin, Christian Gottlob Leopold Gmelin he made the acquaintance of Rene Just Hauy, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Louis Jacques Thenard and Louis Nicolas Vauquelin.

In 1816, Leopold Gmelin married Louise in Heidelberg-Kirchheim, a daughter of the Kirchheimer pastor Johann Conrad Maurer, the lawyer Georg Ludwig von Maurer became his brother-in-law.

When Friedrich Wohler worked on complex cyanogen compounds in 1822, Leopold Gmelin assisted him and discovered the Red prussiate.

From 1833 to 1838, Leopold Gmelin owned a paper mill in the north of Heidelberg situated Schriesheim, he had taken it over in the hope of profit.

Until his death Leopold Gmelin worked on the fifth edition of the handbook, which had become a valuable source of chemical information and documentation.

Leopold Gmelin established the basis of an unambiguous classification of inorganic substances, later named the Gmelin system.

At the age of 60, Leopold Gmelin suffered a first stroke, and another in August 1850.

The mineralogical works of Leopold Gmelin dealt with the analyses of various minerals, such as the hauyne, a silicate mineral, with which he made his habilitation in Gottingen, or the laumontite and the cordierite.

Leopold Gmelin developed a forerunner of the Periodic table and improved chemical equipment.