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1911
Encyclopedia:"Danish mineralc::ist and geologist, was born at Husum,
Schleswig, on the 24th of July 1794, and died at Copenhagen on the 14th of December
1865. After studying at Kiel and Copenhagen from 18,5 to 1818, he joined Qersted
and Lauritz Esmarch in their mineralogical exploration of Bornholm, and took
a considerable share in the labours of the expedition. In 1820 he obtained his
doctor�s degree by a chemical treatise Dc mangano, and immediately after set
out on a journey through England, Scotland and the Faeroe Islands. In 1823 he
was appointed lecturer at Copenhagen University on chemistry and mineralogy;
in 1829 he obtained a similar post in the newly established polytechnic school;
and in f831 he was appointed professor of mineralogy in the university, and
in 1848 became curator of the geological museum. From 1835 to 1837 he made many
contributions to the geological survey of Denmark. On the death of H. C. Oersted
in 1851, he succeeded him as director of the polytechnic school and secretary
of the Academy of Sciences. In 1850 he began with J. Steenstrup and Worsaae
various anthropological publications which gained a high reputation. As a public
instructor Forchhammer held a high place and contributed potently to the progress
of his favourite studies in his native country. He interested himself in such
practical questions as the introduction of gas into Copenhagen, the establishment
of the fire-brigade at Rosenberg and the boring of artesian wells.
.......Among his more important works are-�---Loerebog
i. de enkelte Radicalers Chemi (1842); Danmarks geognostiske Forhold (1835);
Om de Bornholmske Kulformationer (1836); Dit myere Kridt 1 Danmark (1847); Bidrag
�til Skildringen of Danmarks geographiske Forhol.d (1858). A list of his contributions
to scientific periodicals, Danish, English and German, will be found in the
Catalogue of Scientific Papers published by the Royal Society of London. One
of the most interesting and most recent is � On the Constitution of Sea Water
at Different Depths and in Different Latitudes,� in the Proceedings of the Roy.
Soc. xii. (1862-1863)."
