Christlieb Ehregott Gellert
German metallurgist
Christlieb Ehregott Gellert (August 11, 1713 – May 18, 1795) was a German chemist and metallurgist. He was the first professor of chemical metallurgy at the Freiberg Mining Academy.
Life and work
Gellert was born in Hainichen near Freiberg (Saxony), the son of church priest Christian (1672–1747) and Johanna Salome (1680–1759) née Schütz. He studied in Freiberg before going to the princely school of St. Afra in Meissen in 1729. His brother was the poet Christian Fürchtegott Gellert. He studied natural sciences at the University of Leipzig from 1734 to 1736 and then went to St Peterburg to teach at a grammar school. He worked as an adjunct at the Imperial Academy of Sciences where Leonhard Euler inspired him to study chemistry and physics. In 1746 he published a translation of J. A. Cramer's Elementa artis docimasticae (1739). He moved back to Freiberg and began to work on practical mining and metallurgy.
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