. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . ed with a base. The saltsthus formed are go easily decomposedthat a slight touch causes their decom-position ; a violent explosion follows,and a new series of comj^ounds areformed. It was the nature of thesecompounds that Liebig investigated—thus indicating the bent of his geniustowards the investigation of the chem-istry of those four organic his subsequent writings, he oftenalludes to
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies . ed with a base. The saltsthus formed are go easily decomposedthat a slight touch causes their decom-position ; a violent explosion follows,and a new series of comj^ounds areformed. It was the nature of thesecompounds that Liebig investigated—thus indicating the bent of his geniustowards the investigation of the chem-istry of those four organic his subsequent writings, he oftenalludes to the fulminates as instancesof unstable chemical combination, illus-trating the nature of some of the chan-ges which the organic elements undergoin the comj)ounds which form the tis-sues of plants and animals. The truechemical constitution of these com-pounds was not explained till Liebigread his i3aj)er on them before the In-stitute of France in 1824. The reading of this paper broughtLiebig in contact with Baron Hum-boldt, who was at that time residingin Paris. At the moment he was un-known to Liebig, and, on hearing hispaper read, he invited him to hishouse. Liebig, unfortunately, forgot. ^,,.^v/r^2i^^ BAEON JUSTUS VON LIEBIG. 223 to ask his name and address, and nottill a subsequent occasion did lie learnthe name of his great friend, who,from that time, warmly interested him-self in his success. Humboldt intro-duced him to Gay-Lussac and the cir-cle of French chemists, and afterwardsused his influence to obtain for himthe post of extraordinary professor atGiessen. At the early age of twenty-one, Liebig entered upon his new du-ties at Giessen. In 1826, he was ap-pointed ordinary professor in the Uni-versity. It was now that he com-menced the establishment of a labora-tory for the teaching of practical chem-istry. This was the first institutionof the kind that was established inGermany; and soon, under the influ-ence of the ardor and genius of itsyouthful superintendent, succ
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