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Vinony's link graph records 185 inbound references to Hennig Brand, and connects out to Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jean de Roquetaillade and Abu Bakr al-Razi.
It is catalogued under topics including 1630s births, 17th-century alchemists and 17th-century German inventors.
Vinony links it to 29 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Born
- about 1630
- Died
- about 1692 or about 1710
- Known for
- Discovery of the element phosphorus
- Fields
- Alchemy
- Institutions
- Hamburg
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Henning
- Family name
- Brandt
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Hamburg
- Place of death
- Hamburg
- Occupation
- pharmacist
- Languages spoken
- German
- Field of work
- chemistry
- Image
- Hennig Brand (Joseph Wright).jpeg
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- date of birth
- 1630-01-01
- date of death
- 1710-00-00
- name in native language
- Hennig Brand
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Encyclopedic overview
Hennig Brand ( German pronunciation: [ˈhɛnɪç bʁant]; c. 1630 – c. 1692 or c. 1710) was a German alchemist who lived and worked in Hamburg. In 1669, Brand accidentally discovered the chemical element phosphorus while searching for the "philosopher's stone", a substance which was believed to transmute base metals into gold.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hennig Brand” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.