About Friedrich Heeren
Lived 1803 – 1885 (aged 81). Friedrich Heeren was a German chemist and university teacher.
Friedrich Heeren (11 August 1803 – 2 May 1885) was a German chemist.
He received his doctorate in Göttingen, and from 1831 was an instructor of technological-chemical subjects at the Polytechnic School in Hannover (Höheren Gewerbeschule). Here he taught classes in physics, mineralogy and chemistry.
With technologist Karl Karmarsch (1803-1879), he published a technical dictionary (Technisches Wörterbuch). Also, with Karmarsch, he developed a process for the preparation of gun cotton. In 1881 he introduced an apparatus for the testing of milk (lactometer, patent# 241655).
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Who was Friedrich Heeren?
German chemist (1803–1885)
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Friedrich Heeren was born on 11 August 1803 in Hamburg.
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Friedrich Heeren died on 2 May 1885 in Hanover.
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Friedrich Heeren was a chemist and university teacher.
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Friedrich Heeren was German.
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