Justus Freierr Von Liebig Research Paper

Justus Freiherr von Liebig was born in darmstadt into the middle class family of johann georg liebig, and maria caroline möser. In his early years as a child her was fascinated with chemistry. At age 13 a catastrophe hit majority of food crops in the northern hemisphere were destroyed by a volcanic winter. (reduction of global temperatures due to volcanic ash and droplets of sulfuric acid obscuring the sun and raising the earth's albedo increasing the reflection of solar radiation) germany was among the hardest hit in this global famine. This experience is said to have shaped liebig’s later work. Liebig made great innovations to fertilizer and agriculture and thanks to him the 1816 famine became known as ‘the last great subsistence crisis in