Eilhard Mitscherlich

Eilhard Mitscherlich was a German chemist, who is perhaps best remembered today for his discovery of the phenomenon of isomorphism in 1819.

Mitscherlich was born at Neuende in the Lordship of Jever, where his father was pastor. His uncle, Christoph Wilhelm Mitscherlich , professor at the University of Gttingen, was in his day a celebrated scholar. Eilhard Mitscherlich as educated at Jever by the historian Friedrich Christoph Schlosser, and in 1811 went to the University of Heidelberg devoting himself to philology, with an emphasis on the Persian language. In 1813 he went to Paris to seek permission to join the embassy which Napoleon I of France was establishing in Persia.

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