Johann Friedrich Böttger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Saxon alchemist
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Place of Birth: Schleiz, Thuringia, Germany
About Johann Friedrich Böttger
- Johann Friedrich Böttger (also Böttcher or Böttiger; 4 February 1682 – 13 March 1719) was a German alchemist.
- Böttger was born in Schleiz and died in Dresden.
- He is normally credited with being the first European to discover the secret of the creation of hard-paste porcelain in 1708, but it has also been claimed that English manufacturers or Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus produced porcelain first.
- Certainly, the Meissen factory, established 1710, was the first to produce porcelain in Europe in large quantities and since the recipe was kept a trade secret by Böttger for his company, experiments continued elsewhere throughout Europe.
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