biography
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Libau or Libavius, Andreas
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pronunciation:
[leebow, libayvius
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1540–1616)
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| biography:
| Alchemist, born in Halle, EC Germany. He studied at Jena, became professor of history and poetry there (1586–91), and in the 1590s took a post at Rothenburg ober der Tauber. His finest work was Alchymia (1606, Alchemy), the first modern chemical textbook, which gives an account of a range of chemical methods and substances, and vigorously attacks the ideas of Paracelsus. |
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