Antal Ruprecht

Antal Ruprecht
Anton Leopold von Rupprecht
Portrait, c. 1792
Born1748 (1748)
Szomolnok, Hungary
(today Smolník, Slovakia)
Died1818 (aged 69–70)
Vienna, Austria
CitizenshipHungarian
Alma materMining Academy of Selmecbánya/Schemnitz
Scientific career
InstitutionsMining Academy of Selmecbánya/Schemnitz

Antal Ruprecht or Anton Leopold Ruprecht (1748–1818) was a Hungarian chemist. He established a laboratory and conducted analyses of minerals at the Mining Academy of Schemnitz and later at the University of Pavia. He claimed to have found a method for reducing some metal ores but this was claimed by Martin Klaproth to be incorrect.[1]

Biography

Ruprecht was born in Szomolnok, Hungary in 1748 in the family of mining official Frntiška Ignáca. He graduated from the Mining Academy of Selmecbánya with studies under G. A. Scopoli and Ignaz Elder von Born (1742–91). He was sent by the Viennese court chamber in 1774 to study in Freiburg, Germany and at the University of Uppsala in Sweden. He studied under Christlieb Ehregott Gellert, Torbern Olof Bergman and Morten Thrane Esmark. He returned to become a professor of chemistry and metallurgy in 1779 at the Mining Academy and after the death of Scopoli he went to the University of Pavia. He was the first to melt platinum and contributed to the discovery of tellurium in 1784.[2][3] Ruprecht was the first to theorise that alkaline earth metals were compounds rather than elements; later proved by Humphry Davy.[4] This theory caused some controversy in the chemistry community due to the previous assumption of earths being fundamental substances.[5] Ruprecht worked with Matteo Tondi on efforts to reduce wolfram and molybdenum ores in 1791. He also taught on atmospheric electricity and designed lightning conductors for safety of buildings that stored gunpowder.[6] In 1792 he became councillor of the mining chamber and supreme chief of mining for the Austro-Hungarian empire.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ Fontani, Marco; Costa, Mariagrazia; Orna, Mary Virginia (2014). "Analytical Methodology from Lavoisier to Mendeleev". The Lost Elements. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780199383344.003.0010. ISBN 978-0-19-938334-4. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
  2. ^ "Ruprecht, Antal (1748-1818)". European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  3. ^ Görög, Sándor (2002). "Chemistry in Hungary". Nachrichten aus der Chemie. 50 (6): 712–715. doi:10.1002/nadc.20020500612.
  4. ^ Nagaiyar Krishnamurthy & Chiranjib Kumar Gupta (2004). Extractive Metallurgy of Rare Earths. CRC Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0203413029.
  5. ^ Ferenc Szabadvary (1993). History of Analytical Chemistry. CRC Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-2881245695.
  6. ^ Čársky, Jozef; Herčko, Ivan (2015). "Anton Leopold Ruprecht - A chemist, mineralogist, metallurgist, and a distinguished personality of the chemical revolution in the 18th century". Acta Metallurgica Slovaca. 21 (4): 339–351. doi:10.12776/ams.v21i4.643. ISSN 1338-1156.
  7. ^ Szabadváry, Ferenc (1982). "Professor Anton Ruprecht and the metallization of earths". Periodica Polytechnica Chemical Engineering. 26 (2): 143–147. ISSN 1587-3765.
  8. ^ Konečný, Peter (2012). "The Hybrid Expert in the 'Bergstaat': Anton von Ruprecht as a Professor of Chemistry and Mining and as a Mining Official, 1779–1814". Annals of Science. 69 (3): 335–347. doi:10.1080/00033790.2012.681489. ISSN 0003-3790.
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