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Glauber was born on March 10, 1604 in Karlstadt am Main, Germany, the son of a barber.
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Glauber was born on March 10, 1604 in Karlstadt am Main, Germany, the son of a barber.
Glauber did not finish school, but is thought to have studied pharmacy and visited laboratories. He said that he was glad that he had not suffered the grind of high school but had instead learned by experience.
Little is known of Glauber's life. He resided successively in Vienna, Salzburg, Frankfurt and Cologne before settling in Holland, where he made his living chiefly by the sale of secret chemical and medicinal preparations. Though his writings abound in universal solvents and other devices of the alchemists, he made some real contributions to chemical knowledge. Thus he clearly described the preparation of hydrochloric acid by the action of oil of vitriol on common salt, the manifold virtues of sodium sulphate - sal mirabile, Glauber's salt - formed in the process being one of the chief themes of his Miraculum mundi; and he noticed that nitric acid was formed when nitre was substituted for the common salt. Further he prepared a large number of substances, including the chlorides and other salts of lead, tin, iron, zinc, copper, antimony and arsenic, and he even noted some of the phenomena of double decomposition. He was always anxious to turn his knowledge to practical account, whether in preparing medicines, or in furthering industrial arts such as dyeing, or in increasing the fertility of the soil by artificial manures. One of his most notable works was his Dess Teutschlands Wohlfahrt in which he urged that the natural resources of Germany should be developed for the profit of the country and gave various instances of how this might be done. In 1660 he became seriously ill, which has been attributed to poisoning from the various heavy metals used in his work, and in 1666 was crippled by a fall from a wagon and was confined to bed for the rest of his life. As a result, he had to sell off books and equipment to provide for his family. He died on 16 March 1670 in Amsterdam. His treatises, about 30 in number, were collected and published at Frankfurt in 1658-1659, at Amsterdam in 1661, and, in an English translation by Packe, at London in 1689.
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Glauber married twice, and with his second wife Helena Cornelius (married 1641) had eight children.