Georg Ernst Stahl

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birth_date = October 21, 1660
birth_place = Ansbach
death_date = May 24, 1734
death_place = Berlin
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nationality = German
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field = chemistry
work_institutions = University of Halle
alma_mater = University of Jena
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known_for = phlogiston theory fermentation
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Georg Ernst Stahl (October 21, 1660 – May 24, 1734), was a German chemist and physician.

He was born at Ansbach. Having graduated in medicine at the University of Jena in 1683, he became court physician to Duke Johann Ernst of Sachsen Weimar in 1687. From 1694 to 1716 he held the chair of medicine at Halle, and was then appointed physician to King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia in Berlin. It was there that he died.

In chemistry he is chiefly remembered in part with the obsolete phlogiston theory, the essentials of which, however, he owed to J.J. Becher. He also propounded a view of fermentation which in some respects resembles that supported by Justus von Liebig a century and half later. In medicine he professed an animistic system, in opposition to the materialism of Hermann Boerhaave and Friedrich Hoffmann.

The most important of his numerous writings are "Zymotechnia fundamentalis sive fermentalionis theoria generalis" (1697), which contains the phlogistic hypothesis; "Specimen Becherianum" (1702); "Experimenta, observationes, aniniadversiones ... chymicae et physicae" (1731); "Theoria medica vera" (1707); "Ars sanandi cum expectalione" (1730).

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title= [Stahl, Leibniz, Hoffmann and breathing]
journal=Revue de synthèse / Centre international de synthèse
volume=127
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pages=43–75
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last=Magyar
first=László András
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year=2005|month=Nov.

title= [Stahl on disease of courtiers]
journal=Orvosi hetilap
volume=146
issue=48
pages=2468–9
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last=Helm
first=J
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year=2000|month=.

title= ["Quod naturae ipsae sint morborum medicatrices." Hippocratism of Georg Ernst Stahl]
journal=Medizinhistorisches Journal
volume=35
issue=3-4
pages=251–62
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last=Konert
first=J
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year=1997|month=.

title=Academic and practical medicine in Halle during the era of Stahl, Hoffmann, and Juncker
journal=Caduceus (Springfield, Ill.)
volume=13
issue=1
pages=23–38
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last=Gyözö
first=B
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year=1996|month=Mar.

title= [Friedrich Hoffmann and Georg Ernst Stahl, classic representatives of baroque medicine]
journal=Orvosi hetilap
volume=137
issue=10
pages=531–3
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last=Kaiser
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year=1984|month=Aug.

title= [Georg Ernst Stahl (1659-1734)--on the 250th anniversary of his death 14 May 1984]
journal=Zeitschrift für die gesamte innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete
volume=39
issue=15
pages=371–6
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last=Bednarczyk
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year=1981|month=.

title= [Antimechanistic materialism in the 18th century philosophy of medicine. G. E. Stahl (1659-1734) and animism]
journal=Archiwum historii medycyny
volume=44
issue=2
pages=163–87
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last=SCHULTHEISZ
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year=1964|month=May.

title= [Georg Ernst Stahl.]
journal=Orvosi hetilap
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pages=942–3
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year=1960|month=Oct.

title=Georg Ernest STAHL (1660-1734)
journal=The American journal of psychiatry
volume=117
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pages=366–7
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