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Brünnich, Johannes Christian (1861 - 1933) |
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| Agricultural chemist | |
| Born: 11 September 1861 Görz, Austria-Hungary. Died: 3 July 1933 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. | |
| Johannes Christian Brünnich was government agricultural chemist for the Queensland Department of Agriculture 1897-1931. His "Elementary Lessons on the Chemistry of Farm, Dairy, and Household", first published serially in 1906 in the "Queensland Agricultural Journal", had monograph editions in 1912 and 1922 and was a text in rural colleges for many years. |
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| Born Görz, Austria-Hungary (now Gorizia, Italy), 11 September 1861. Died Brisbane, 3 July 1933. Educated Federal Polytechnic School, Zurich. Sugar-beet factories in Bohemia and Russia; wholesale drugs firm, Georgia, USSR; Swiss military service 1884; manager, sugar refinery and maltings, Brisbane 1885-86; manager, sugar mill, Darwin 1886-87; chemist and manager, Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Homebush mill near Mackay 1887-97; government agricultural chemist, Queensland Department of Agriculture 1897-1931; lecturer in chemistry, Gatton Agricultural College 1897-99. President, Royal Society of Queensland 1908; examiner in chemistry, Queensland College of Pharmacy and Chemistry. |
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