Lars Fredrik Svanberg x Johannes Rosenbrock

Lars Fredrik Svanberg (13 May 1805 – 16 July 1878) was a

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chemist and mineralogist.

Life

He was born on 13 May 1805 in

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, Sweden, as the son of

Jöns Svanberg Jöns Svanberg (1771–1851) was a Swedish clergyman and natural scientist. Life He was born on 6 July 1771 in Ytterbyn, Sweden and died on 15 January 1851 in Uppsala, Sweden. Career He entered Uppsala University at the age of 16. He re ...

. He was married twice. In 1836, he married Augusta Roth and in 1859, Baroness Frederica Augusta Stiernstedt. He died on 16 July 1878 in Uppsala, Sweden.

Career

He was a student of

Jöns Jacob Berzelius Baron Jöns Jacob Berzelius (; by himself and his contemporaries named only Jacob Berzelius, 20 August 1779 – 7 August 1848) was a Swedish chemist. Berzelius is considered, along with Robert Boyle, John Dalton, and Antoine Lavoisier, to be on ...

. From 1853 to 1874, he was the professor of chemistry at

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. In 1839, he became a member of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special ...

. He also had a military career, and was appointed

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in the Swedish Navy Mechanical Corps. His duties were the quality control of cannon and iron produced for the

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Honours

The mineral

Svanbergite Svanbergite is a colorless, yellow or reddish mineral with the chemical formula Sr Al3( P O4)( SO4)(O H)6. It has rhombohedral crystals.Richard V. Gaines, H. Catherine W. Skinner, Eugene E. Foord, Brian Mason, and Abraham Rosenzweig: " Dana's new ...

is named after him.

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* http://runeberg.org/sbh/svanblar.html 1805 births 1878 deaths Swedish chemists Swedish mineralogists Uppsala University faculty Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Swedish Navy officers 19th-century Swedish military personnel Burials at Uppsala old cemetery {{Sweden-scientist-stub