Klaproth-Kitaibel letters on tellurium

Baron Ignaz Edler von Born was born at Cluj, Transylvania, on December 26, 1742, received his elementary education at Hermannstadt and Vienna, and was for sixteen months a member of the Jesuit order. After extended travels in several European countries, he returned to his mother country and devoted the rest of his life to natural science, 

Professor Ladislaus von Szathmary. Hungarian historian of chemistry and editor. Author of many articles and 

Tellurium Medallion. A very rare tellurium medallion bearing on one side the inscription Tellurium from Nagyag, 1896 and on the other the words Royal Hungarian Smelter at SelmeczMnya [Schemnitz]. The diameter is 43 mm., the thickness 5.5 mm. One of these medallions is owned by the Hungarian National Museum, another by the University of Sopron [Odenburg], 

This view, however, was opposed by a distinguished contemporary. Baron Franz Joseph Muller von Reichenstein was bom at Sibiu, (Nagy-szeben or Hermannstadt) in the Transylvanian Alps on July 1, 1740. After receiving his elementary education in his native city, he went to Vienna to study philosophy and law. Later he became so deeply interested in mining, metallurgy, and chemistry that in 1763 he entered the famous School of Mines of Selmeczbanya, or Schemnitz (which is now known as Stiavnica Banska, Czechoslovakia). Here he studied under the capable leadership of N. J. Jacquin (1). 

Upon returning to Transylvania, he served on a mining commission to reorganize the neglected mines of his native country, and later became director of mines in the Banat. When he succeeded in putting the mines on a paying basis, Maria Theresia entrusted him with similar 

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