306 Heinrich Rose. 
learning and genius of our own times. Humboldt himself is 
gone, and y. Buch, Ritter, Dirichlet, and now, too, Mitscherlich 
and Heinrich Rose. 
In what way then did Rose get the name which he has left? 
e was born on the 6th of August, 1795, in Berlin, where 
his father and grandfather were pharmaceutists and chemists. 
The grandfather is now best known as the discoverer of the 
fusible alloy called after him, Rose’s metal; his father, a man of 
considerable scientific reputation, died in the year 1807, in the 
days so dark for Prussia, leaving a widow and four young sons. 
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city was besieged by the French under Gen. Rapp, and was 
near losing his life from the typhus which prevailed in the town. 
He served in the campaign of 1815, with his three brothers, and 
on his return remained in Berlin until the end of August in the 
following year. He was not a pupil of Hermstiidt, as has been 
asserted, but was engaged at this time in the laboratory of Klap- 
roth, as we learn from the discourse which he delivered before 
the Berlin Academy in memory of Berzelius. 
“T had the good fortune in my youth to assist the celebrated 
hus, I was able to compare his ways of operating with those of 
tered the pharmacy of Dr. Bidder; his leisure time was passed 
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mica. Here he remained two years. In December he was 
joined by Mitscherlich, who was already known to Berzelius 
in Berlin. In the spring of 1821, his brother, Gustav Rose, 
its compounds with 
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