Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs

Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, until 1854 by Fox ( born May 15, 1774 Matt Zell town of Zell at Falkenstein, the district of Cham, Oberpfalz, Bayern, † March 5, 1856 in Munich) was a German chemist and mineralogist, royal Bavarian Privy and Oberbergrat.

Life

Fuchs was the son of Georg Fux Frosted cell, mentioned in 1774 in Martin Neukirchen near Falkenstein ( Bavaria).

1807 Johann Nepomuk Fuchs Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at the University of Landshut, and in 1823 curator of the mineralogical collections in Munich. In 1854 he was a professor of mineralogy at the University of Munich.

In 1846 he founded together with Josef Schlotthauer the Stereochromie.

In 1853 Fuchs was awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, and was raised in Munich on 8 December 1854 in the Bavarian hereditary nobility with its entry in the Adelsmatrikel on 12 January 1855.

Works

• Issued together with a brief display content of all other writings and essays by the author to the 70ster birthday party of some friends / by JN Fuchs: On the theories of the earth, the amorphism solid bodies and the mutual influence of the chemistry and mineralogy. - Munich: . Fleischmann, 1844 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf