Frederick Augustus Genth
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| Born |
May 17, 1820 Wächtersbach, Hesse-Cassel, Germany |
| Died | February 27, 1893 (aged 72) Philadelphia, United States |
| Nationality | German later American |
| Institutions | University of Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater | University of Marburg |
Frederick Augustus Ludwig Karl Wilhelm Genth (born in Wächtersbach, Hesse-Cassel, 17 May 1820; died in Philadelphia 2 February 1893) was a German-American chemist, specializing in analytical chemistry and mineralogy.
Genth studied at the Hanau gymnasium and at the University of Heidelberg, under Justus von Liebig at Giessen, and finally under Christian Gerling (physics) and Robert Bunsen (chemistry) at Marburg, where he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1846. For three years (1845-1848) he acted as assistant to Bunsen.
In 1848, Genth emigrated to the United States. He settled in Philadelphia and organized an analytical laboratory. In 1872 he was appointed professor of chemistry and mineralogy in the University of Pennsylvania. He resigned his professorship in 1888, and re-established his laboratory. He also held the office of chemist to the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania and also to the board of agriculture of that state.
Genth was a member of many scientific societies in the United States: he was elected in 1872 to membership in the National Academy of Sciences; he was a member of the American Philosophical Society (1854–93), one of the founders of the American Chemical Society, and its president in 1880, and a fellow of the Boston Academy of Arts and Sciences. Benjamin Silliman, Jr., alluded to Genth as having “no superior in this country as an analytical chemist.”
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