Sir Benjamin Thompson
Count Rumford; b. March 26, 1753 (at Woburn, Massachusetts); d. August 21, 1814 (at Paris); soldier and scientist.
The famous Benjamin Thompson who received from Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, the title of Count Rumford, laid out the Englischer Garten, in Munich, Bavaria.
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Sir Benjamin Thompson, Englischer Garten (München: 1789).
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