Georg Ernst Stahl

Georg Ernst Stahl was a male physician, surgeon, chemist, and university teacher from the Principality of Ansbach. He was educated at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and later worked at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Halle (Saale). Stahl was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and was influenced by Johann Joachim Becher. He spoke German and Latin and had a student named Michael Alberti.

Born in 1660 in Ansbach, Stahl died in Berlin on May 14, 1734. He is described by sources including the Nordisk familjebok, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, and Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. His notable works include Materia medicæ, darinnen sonderlich die besten simplicia..., Tagebuch der medicinischen Litteratur der Jahre 1745 bis 1774, De Empeiria rationali medica, Opusculum chymico-physico-medicum, and Pyrotechnical discourses. Containing, I. An experimental confirmation of chymical philosophy.