Beckmann, JOHANN, was born in 1739 at Hoya, in Hanover, and was educated at Göttingen. After holding a professorship of Physics and Natural History at St Petersburg (1763-65), he was in 1766 appointed professor of Philosophy, and in 1770 of Political Economy, at Göttingen, where he died, February 4, 1811. In Germany he was the first scientific writer on agriculture. In England he is known by his History of Inventions (5 vols. 1780-1805; Eng. trans. 1814).
Beckmann, JOHANN
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