Georg Ernst Stahl ||This article includes a list of references,
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inline citations. (September 2009)| |Georg Ernst Stahl| Georg
Ernst Stahl |Born||22 October 1659 |Died||24 May 1734
|Institutions||University of Halle| |Alma mater||University of
Jena| |Known for||phlogiston theory He was born at Ansbach.
Having graduated in medicine at the University of Jena in 1683,
he became court physician to Duke Johann Ernst of Sachsen Weimar
in 1687. From 1694 to 1716 he held the chair of medicine at
Halle, and was then appointed physician to King Friedrich
Wilhelm I of Prussia in Berlin. He died in Berlin. In chemistry
he is chiefly remembered in part with the obsolete phlogiston
theory, the essentials of which, however, he owed to J.J.
Becher. He also propounded a view of fermentation which in some
respects resembles that supported by Justus von Liebig a century
and half later. In medicine he professed an animistic system, in
opposition to the materialism of Herm