Franz Ernst Brückmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German scientist
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Place of Birth: Mariental, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Franz Ernst Brückmann
- Franz Ernst Brückmann (September 27, 1697 – March 21, 1753) was a German mineralogist born at Marienthal near Helmstedt.
- Having qualified as a physician in 1721, he practised at Braunschweig and afterwards at Wolfenbüttel (from 1728).
- In 1747 he was appointed medical assessor in Braunschweig.His leisure time was given up to natural history, and especially to mineralogy and botany.
- He appears to have been the first to introduce the term "oolithus" to rocks that resemble in structure the roe of a fish; whence the terms "oolite" and "oolitic".
- He died at Wolfenbüttel.His publications include Magnalia Dei in locis subterraneis (Brunswick, 1727), Historia naturalis curiosa lapidis (1727), and Thesaurus subterraneus Ducatus Brunsvigii (1728).
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