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Biography. On Thursday, 5 February 1682, Johann Friedrich Böttger was baptized in Schleiz as the third child of his parents. His father was a mint master in Schleiz. His mother was the daughter of the Magdeburg councilor Pflug. In 1682 the family moved to Magdeburg. In the same year his father died. In 1685 his mother married the also widowed ...
Oct 6, 2016 · Dresden, Dresden, Saxony, Germany. Genealogy for Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682 - 1719) family tree on Geni, with over 240 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
- Schleiz, Thuringia
- February 4, 1682
- Thuringia
- March 13, 1719
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In Meissen porcelain. …was discovered about 1707 by Johann Friedrich Böttger, an alchemist, and Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, a physicist, whose research into porcelain had earlier produced a stoneware that is the hardest known substance of its kind. The earliest porcelain was smoky in tone and not highly translucent, but improvements ...
Nov 11, 2015 · The man most often credited as the original creator of European porcelain was a German by the name of Johann Friedrich Böttger. He was an alchemist—he said that he knew how to turn lead into...
vitrification of the clay body (4). It was, however, Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682-1719), an alchemist in pursuit of the philosopher’s stone, together with Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (1651-1708) and their circle of laboratory assistants and kiln builders, who finally succeeded in reinventing porcelain in Europe. Böttger was
To his contemporaries, Johann Friedrich Böttger was variously a magician, an alchemist, and a cheat. When he was only nineteen years old, Böttger caught the attention of Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony, who heard the young man's boast that he could produce gold from base metals. The impoverished ruler, welcoming the opportunity to ...
Johann F. Böttger. 1682-1719. German alchemist and the ceramist of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland. As the first European to discover the secret of Chinese porcelain, Böttger is credited with the invention of European hard white porcelain, which has a higher kaolin content than the Asian type.
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