Ironworks Proprietor and Scientist

Hisinger was representative of the Swedish leaders who were active in the iron works at the start of the industrial era. Many were learned men, bold and versatile characters. Times of prosperity gave them economic independence and the possibility for activities beyond direct management. 

1) The description is typical of the situation in Sweden at the end of the 18 century. Torbem Bergman and Carl Wilhelm Scheele were dead. Who could examine new mineral findings Jo- 

In his Early collections of a chemist Wohler gave a charming picture of Hisinger s home After a five-day stay at Fahlun we drove to Skiimskatte-berg, Hisinger s estate, and we found Berzelius there. The venerable, genial 

Hisinger, so well known throtigh the liberality with which he had supported Berzelius, lived here, a very rich man on a princely estate, surrounded by magnificent forests, gardens, and iron mines. In company with Berzelius and Hisinger we made an excursion to the mines of Riddarhyttan and Bast-naes. At the mouth of this mine, which at that time had already been abandoned, we collected in the scorching sun hundreds of specimens of cerite.  

In this simple house and laboratory Berzelius Hved and worked in the 1810s when he introduced the new, internationally accepted element designations, Fe, O, S, and so on and here he started the accurate determinations of atomic weights. These were a prerequisite for the developing periodic system of the elements. 

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