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Online Encyclopedia Search over 40, 000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition. EDLER VON IGNAZ BORN (1742-1791) Online Encyclopedia Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 255 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. » to this article. » to this article. Spread the word: EDLER VON IGNAZ See also: (1742-1791)  , See also: mineralogist and metallurgist, was See also: of a See also: See also: at Karlsburg, in Transylvania, on the 26th of See also: 1742 . Educated in a Jesuit See also: in See also:, he was for sixteen months a member of the See also:, but See also: it and studied See also: at See also: . Then he travelled extensively in See also:, See also: and See also:, studying See also:, and on his return to Prague in 1770 entered the See also: of mines and the See also: . In 1776 he was appointed by Maria See also: to arrange the imperial museum at Vienna, where he was nominated to the See also: of mines and the mint, and continued to reside until his See also: on the 24th of See also: 1791 . He introduced a method of extracting metals by amalgamation (Uber See also: Anquicken der Erse, 1786), and other improvements in See also: and other technical processes . His publications also include Lithophylacium Bornianum (1772-...