Stahl, Georg Ernest

Gillespie, Charles C., ed. Dictionary of scientific biography.. S.v. "Stahl (George Ernest)," by Lester S. King. 

Georg Ernest Stahl was born at Ansbach in 1666. He was educated as a physician at Jena and taught medicine there from 1683. Upon the foundation of the University of Halle, he was appointed professor of medicine at that university where he taught medicine and chemistry for twenty-two years. His especial interest in chemistry was shown here by the number of his students whom he inspired to chemical study. In 1716 lie was called to Ber-... 

Peter Shaw, ed. Philosophical Principles of Universal Chemistry, or. The Foundation of a Sdentifical Manner of Inquiring. .. Drawn from the Collegium Jenese of Dr. George Ernest Stahl (London J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1730). 

Peter Shaw, Philosophical principles of Universal Chemistry—. Drawn from the collegium jenense of Dr. George Ernest Stahl, London, 1730. 

These ideas proposed by Becher were not fully developed by him—or in the l600s— but more in the 1700s by our next subject, Georg Ernest Stahl. In fact Stahl should be placed chronologically in the next chapter. But standing as he does with one foot in this era and one in the next, Stahl makes an ideal conclusion to this equivocal age. 

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