| As a professor
of chemistry in Giessen, Germany, Liebig founded a laboratory that
became the foremost institution of chemical instruction in the
world (9). He and
his students made many contributions,
particularly to organic, analytical, and agricultural chemistry.
Leibig was
a contentious man who attacked other chemists' ideas and involved
himself in bitter controversies.
Liebig was an inspiring teacher and a prolific writer. As Berzelius aged and declined in stature, Liebig held the authoritative
position in chemistry that Berzelius once had. The strenuous work of his
early career led Liebig to abandon laboratory instruction in
1852, after which his influence declined.
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