biography
pronunciation:
[shtahl]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1660–1734)
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| biography:
| Physician and chemist, born in Ansbach, SC Germany. He became professor of medicine at Halle (1694), and personal physician (1714) to the King of Prussia. He expounded the phlogiston theory of combustion, and believed that animism played a part in the phenomenon of living organisms. |
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