BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742-1791), Austrian miner alogist and metallurgist, was born of a noble family at Karlsburg, in Transylvania, on Dec. 26 1742, and died at Vienna, July 24 '791. In 1776 he was appointed by Maria Theresa to arrange the imperial museum at Vienna, where he was nominated to the coun cil of mines and the mint, and continued to reside until his death. He introduced a method of extracting metals by amalgamation (fiber das Anquicken der Erze, 1786), and other improvements in mining and technical processes. His publications also include Lithophylacium Bornianum (1772-75) and Bergbaukunde (1789).