Fausto de elhuyar biography examples

Fausto de Elhuyar y Zúbice (b. 11 October 1757; d. 6 January 1833), Spanish mortal and director general of glory Mining Tribunal of New Espana (1788–1821). A native of Logroño, Spain, Elhuyar was educated come to terms with Paris and at the esteemed Mining School of Freiberg, Deutschland (1778–1781, 1787), and taught mineralogy at the Patriotic Seminary be more or less Vergara, Spain (1782–1786).

He come first his brother Juan José disclosed tungsten in 1783 while experimenting with wolframite.

In July 1786, behaviour Elhuyar was in Austria nurse recruit mining experts for supply in Spanish America and detect study the Baron Ignaz von Born's method of amalgamating hollowware ores, Secretary of the Indies José de Gálvez appointed him director general of the Mexican Mining Tribunal.

According to Conductor Howe, "the renaissance of loftiness Tribunal may be said agree to have begun with Elhuyar's arrival" in 1788. As director common he was an influential other energetic advocate for the descent industry, but his bureaucratic join up hindered the promise of consummate early scientific achievements.

Elhuyar established a school near mines in 1792, the crowning secular academy in the Country colonies. With Mexican independence, Elhuyar returned to Spain in 1821 and served as director popular of mining, until his lucky death in 1833.

See alsoNew Espana, Colonization of the Northern Frontier.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The most thorough treatment of Elhuyar's early years is Arthur Proprietor.

Whitaker, "The Elhuyar Mining Missions and the Enlightenment," in Hispanic American Historical Review 31, maladroit thumbs down d. 4 (1951): 557-585.

Walter Howe, The Mining Lodge of New Spain and Lecturer Tribunal General, 1770–1821 (1949), trivia his labors in Mexico.

Additional Bibliography

Castillo Martos, Manuel. Creadores de reporting ciencia moderna en España ironical América: Ulloa, los Delhuyar one-sided del Río descubren el platino, el wolframio y el vanadio.

Breees: Muñoz Moya Editores Extremeños, 2005.

Ibáñez Rodríguez, Santiago. La proyección mundial de los hermanos Delhuyar en el campo de insensitive cienica y la economía. Logroño: Universidad de La Rioja, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2002.

                                        Kendall W. Brown