Klaproth

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German chemist who pioneered analytical chemistry and discovered three new elements (1743-1817)

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Donald Keene explained in a preface to the Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkō Kai edition of the Man'yōshū: : "One 'envoy' (hanka) to a long poem was translated as early as 1834 by the celebrated German orientalist Heinrich Julius Klaproth (1783–1835). Source: Internet

Klaproth, having journeyed to Siberia in pursuit of strange languages, encountered some Japanese castaways, fisherman, hardly ideal mentors for the study of 8th century poetry. Source: Internet

Klaproth assumed the yellow substance was the oxide of a yet-undiscovered element and heated it with charcoal to obtain a black powder, which he thought was the newly discovered metal itself (in fact, that powder was an oxide of uranium). Source: Internet

Klaproth decided to call the element tellurium after the Latin word for earth. Source: Internet

Martin Heinrich Klaproth named the new element in 1798 after the Latin word for "earth", tellus. Source: Internet

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