Johann Friedrich Böttger
German alchemist (1682–1719) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Johann Friedrich Böttger (also Böttcher or Böttiger; 4 February 1682 – 13 March 1719) was a German alchemist. Böttger was born in Schleiz and died in Dresden. He is normally credited with being the first European to discover the secret of the creation of hard-paste porcelain in 1708,[1] but it has also been claimed that English manufacturers[2] or Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus[3][4] produced porcelain first. Certainly, the Meissen factory, established 1710, was the first to produce porcelain in Europe in large quantities and since the recipe was kept a trade secret by Böttger for his company, experiments continued elsewhere throughout Europe.