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Franz Ludwig von Cancrin (February 21, 1738 in
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– 1812) was a German
mineralogist Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts. Specific studies within mineralogy include the proces ...
,
metallurgist Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...
, architect and writer. He was born into a German mining family where he was trained by his father in the science of mining. In 1764, he entered the service of the
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of Hesse-Kassel at
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, becoming professor of mathematics at the military academy, head of the civil engineering department of the state, director of the theatre and (1774) of the mint. A work on the copper mines of Elesse (1767) earned him a European reputation, and in 1783 he accepted from
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of
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the directorship of the famous Staraya salt-works, living thenceforth in Russia. In 1798 he became a councillor of state at
St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
. He published many works on mineralogy and metallurgy, of which the most important, the ''Grundzüge der Berg- und Salzwerkskunde'' (12 vols, 1773–1791), has been translated into several languages. His son, Count
Georg von Cancrin Count Georg Ludwig Cancrin (russian: Егор Францевич Канкрин, tr=Egor Francevič Knkrin; 16 November 1774 – 10 September 1845) was a Russian German aristocrat and as a politician best known for spearheading reforms in the Ru ...
, or Kankrin (1774–1845), was an eminent Russian minister of finance and the liaison with
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during his 1829 scientific expedition to Russia. The mineral of
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is named after him.cancrinite
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Main Works


''Praktische Abhandlung von der Zubereitung der Kupfererze''
Frankfurt, 1765 * ''Beschreibung der vorzüglichsten Bergwerke in Hessen, in dem Waldekkischen, an dem Haarz, in dem Mansfeldischen, in Chursachsen, und in dem Saalfeldischen''. (1767)
''Erste Begriffe der unterirdischen Erdbeschreibung''
Frankfurt, 1773 * ''Gründliche Anleitung zur Schmelzkunst und Metallurgie'', 1784 * ''Stoische Sentenzen, Moralen und politische Einfälle etc.'', 1785 * ''Geschichte und systematische Beschreibung der in der Grafschaf Hanau Muenzenberg, in dem Amte Bieber und anderen Aemtern dieser Grafschaft benachbarten Laendern gelegenen Bergwerke''. 1787. * ''Grundzüge der Berg- und Salzwerkskunde''. 12 vol. Frankfurt 1778–1791
(Vol. 5 available)

''A. Bayer's Bergstaatslehre''
1790. * ''Von der Zubereitung des Roheisens zu Schmiedeeisen'', 1790. * ''Grundlehre der bürgerlichen Baukunst'', 1790.
''Abhandlung von der Anlage, dem vorteilhaftesten Bau und der Unterhaltung der Rohrbrunnen''
Frankfurt, 1791 * ''Einzelne Bauschriften'', 2 vol., 1791–1792.
''Abhandlung von der vorteilhaften Grabung, der guten Fassung und dem rechten Gebrauch der süsen Brunnen, um reines und gesundes Wasser zu bekommen''
Giessen Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univers ...
1792
''Abhandlung von der Bauung und Verwaltung der Höfe und Vorwerke''
Giessen, 1792.
''Anleitung zu einer künstlichen und zwekmäßigen Wiesenwässerung mit Quell- Weg- Dorf- Stadt- Fluß- gesamletem Regen- und Seewasser: Mit einer Kupfertafel''
Warburg Warburg (; Westphalian language, Westphalian: ''Warberich'' or ''Warborg'') is a town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany on the river Diemel near the three-state point shared by Hessen, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. It ...
, 1796. * ''Bewährte Anweisung Schornsteine feuerfest zu bauen, wie auch Stubenöfen nach russischer Art zu verbessern'',
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1797.
''Rechtliches Bedenken über die Regalität der Steinbrüche''
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, 1797. * ''Abhandlungen von dem Wasserrechte, sowohl dem natürlichen, als positiven, vornehmlich aber dem deutschen'', Halle, 1789–1800. * ''Wie man das beste Eisen erhalten kann'', 1800.
''Vollständige Abhandlung von dem Theerbrennen in einem neuen mehr vollkommenen Theerofen worin man mit Scheidholz, Reisbunden, Torf und Stein kohlen feuern kann''
Giessen 1805.


References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cancrin, Franz Ludwig Von 18th-century German architects 1738 births 1812 deaths German mineralogists German metallurgists German male writers People from Marburg-Biedenkopf Engineers from Hesse 19th-century German architects