Jābir ibn Hayyān
Chemist, Inventor
0721 – 0815
Who was Jābir ibn Hayyān?
Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān was a prominent Persian polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer, geographer, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician. Born and educated in Tus, he later traveled to Kufa. Jābir is held to have been the first practical alchemist.
As early as the 10th century, the identity and exact corpus of works of Jābir was in dispute in Islamic circles. His name was Latinized as "Geber" in the Christian West and in 13th-century Europe an anonymous writer, usually referred to as Pseudo-Geber, produced alchemical and metallurgical writings under the pen-name Geber.
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- Born
- 0721
Tous - Also known as
- Abu Musa Jābir ibn Hayyān
- Jabir ibn Hayyan
- Jabir bin Hayyan
- Geber
- Religion
- Shia Islam
- Islam
- Ethnicity
- Persian people
- Arab people
- Nationality
- Umayyad Caliphate
- Profession
- Died
- 0815
Kufa
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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