Friedrich Amelung
Friedrich Amelung was born on March 23, 1842. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Friedrich Amelung
Friedrich Ludwig Balthasar Amelung (23 March [O.S. 11 March] 1842 – 20 March [O.S. 7 March] 1909) was a Baltic German cultural historian, businessman and chess endgame composer. Amelung was born at Võisiku (German: Woiseck) manor in Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire (present-day Jõgeva County in Estonia). 1862–1864 he studied philosophy and chemistry at the Imperial University of Dorpat. From 1864 to 1879 and from 1885 to 1902 he was the director of the Rõika-Meleski mirror factory, which he inherited from his father. Amelung published writings about the culture and history of…