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4 unusual facts about Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein


Eilhard Mitscherlich

In that year Berzelius suggested Mitscherlich to the Prussian education minister Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein as successor to Martin Heinrich Klaproth at Berlin.

Encephalartos altensteinii

The species name altensteinii commemorates Altenstein, a 19th-century German chancellor and patron of science.

Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg

He declined the offer of a classical chair at Kiel, and accepted a post as tutor to the son of an intimate friend of Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein, the Prussian minister of education.

Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein

Karl Sigmund Franz Freiherr vom Stein zum Altenstein (1 October 1770, Schalkhausen near Ansbach - 14 May 1840, Berlin) was a Prussian politician and the first Prussian culture minister.



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