Ewald Georg von Kleist, also known as Ewald Jürgen von Kleist, was a German jurist, Lutheran cleric and physicist who lived from 1700 to 1748 and who is the inventor of the Leyden jar. A member of the von Kleist family, he was born in Vietzow in Farther Pomerania, the son of a district administrator. He studied jurisprudence at the University of Leipzig and the University of Leyden, and may have begun his interest in electricity at the latter under the influence of Willem 's Gravesande.
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Ewald Georg von Kleist (10 June 1700-11 December 1748), also known as Ewald Jürgen von Kleist, was a German jurist, Lutheran cleric, physicist and the inventor of the Leyden jar.
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Ewald Georg von Kleist (10 June 1700-11 December 1748), also known as Ewald Jürgen von Kleist, was a German jurist, Lutheran cleric, physicist and the inventor of the Leyden jar.
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In October 1745, Ewald Georg von Kleist of Pomerania, Germany, found that charge could be stored by connecting a high-voltage electrostatic generator by a wire to a volume of water in a hand-held glass jar.
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German cleric Ewald Georg von Kleist on 11 October 1745
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