Editing Justus von Liebig (section)

==Awards and honors==
[[Image:DBP 1953 166 Liebig.jpg|thumb|right|upright|German stamp picturing Justus von Liebig, 1953]]
[[File:Grab von Justus von Liebig.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Justus von Liebig grave, Munich, Germany]]
Liebig was elected a member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] in 1837.

He became a first-class member of the [[Ludwig Order]], founded by [[Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse|Ludwig I]], and awarded by [[Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse|Ludwig II]] on 24 July 1837.<ref name=Brock/>{{rp|106}}

In 1838, he became a correspondent of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands; when that became the [[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1851, he joined as a foreign member.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00001583 |title=J. von Liebig (1803–1873) |publisher=Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=26 July 2015}}</ref>

The British [[Royal Society]] awarded him the [[Copley Medal]] "for his discoveries in organic chemistry, and particularly for his development of the composition and theory of organic radicals" in 1840.<ref name=Brock/>{{rp|96}}<ref name=Adjudication>{{cite journal|last1=Bowyer|first1=W.|last2=Nichols|first2=J.|title=Adjudication of the Medals of the Royal Society for the year 1840 by the President and Council|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London|year=1840|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0I05AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA226|access-date=6 November 2014}}</ref>

In 1841, botanist [[Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus Endlicher]] (1804–1849) published a genus of [[flowering plant]]s from [[Malesia]], belonging to the family [[Gesneriaceae]], as ''[[Liebigia]]'' in his honour.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Liebigia'' Endl. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17092-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=16 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

[[Ludwig II of Bavaria|King Ludwig II of Bavaria]] ennobled Liebig on 29 December 1845, conferring on him the hereditary title of ''[[Freiherr]]'' [[von]] Liebig. In English, the closest translation is [[Baron]] von Liebig.<ref name=Brock/>{{rp|106}}

In 1850, he received the French ''[[Légion d'honneur]]'', presented by chemist [[Jean-Baptiste Dumas]], the French trade minister.<ref name=Tous>{{cite web|title=Justus von Liebig |url=http://tous-les-faits.fr/justus_von_liebig |website=Tous Les Faits |access-date=6 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141106032032/http://tous-les-faits.fr/justus_von_liebig |archive-date= 6 November 2014 }}</ref>

He was honored with the Prussian Order of Merit for Science by [[Frederick William IV of Prussia|Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia]] in 1851.<ref name=OrderMerite>{{cite web|title=Civilian or Peace Class Order pour le Merite for Arts and Science|url=http://www.pourlemerite.org/peace/peace.php|publisher=Gretchen Winkler and Kurt M. von Tiedemann|access-date=6 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716232443/http://www.pourlemerite.org/peace/peace.php|archive-date=16 July 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

He was elected as a member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1862.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?year=1862;year-max=1862;smode=advanced;startDoc=1|access-date=20 April 2021|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref>

In 1869, Liebig was awarded the [[Albert Medal (Royal Society of Arts)|Albert Medal]] by the [[Royal Society of Arts]], "for his numerous valuable researches and writings, which have contributed most importantly to the development of food-economy and agriculture, to the advancement of chemical science, and to the benefits derived from that science by Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce."<ref name=SocietyArts>{{cite journal|title=Announcements by the Council: Albert Medal|journal=Journal of the Society of Arts|date=26 April 1872|page=491|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NS4FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA491|access-date=6 November 2014}}</ref>

===Posthumous honors===
Liebig's portrait appeared on the {{Reichsmark|100|link=yes}} banknote issued by the [[Reichsbank]] from 1935 until 1945.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://banknote.ws/COLLECTION/countries/EUR/GER/GER0183.htm|title = P-183}}</ref> Printing ceased in 1945 but the note remained in circulation until the issue of the [[Deutsche Mark]] on 21 June 1948.

In 1946, after the end of World War II, the University of Giessen was officially renamed after him, ''"Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen"''.<ref name=JLU/>

In 1953, the West German [[Deutsche Bundespost|post office]] issued a stamp in his honor.<ref>Germany No. 695, ''[[Scott catalogue]]''</ref>

In 1953, the third General Assembly of the International Scientific Centre of Fertilizers (CIEC), founded in 1932, was organized in Darmstadt to honor Justus von Liebig on the 150th anniversary of his birth.<ref name=OpeningAddress/>

A portrait of Liebig hangs in the [[Burlington House]] headquarters of the [[Royal Society of Chemistry]]. It was presented to the society's forerunner, the [[Chemical Society]], by his god-daughter, [[Ethel Brilliana Tweedie|Mrs Alex Tweedie]], née Harley, daughter of Emma Muspratt.<ref>Label on frame</ref>

===Liebig medals===
Some organizations have granted medals in honor of Liebig. In 1871, the Versammlung deutscher Land- und Forstwirte (Assembly of German Farmers and Foresters) was first awarded a Liebig Gold Medal, given to Theodor Reuning. The image was struck from a portrait commissioned in 1869 from Friedrich Brehmer.<ref name=Brock/>{{rp|327–328}}<ref name=Forrer>{{cite book|last1=Forrer|first1=Leonard|title=Biographical dictionary of medallists : coin-, gem-, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works : B.C. 500-A.D. 1900|date=1904|publisher=Spink and Son|location=London|isbn=0906919037|page=[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict06forriala/page/271 271]|edition=Reprinted.|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict06forriala}}</ref>

For several years, the Liebig Trust Fund, established by Baron Liebig, was administered by the [[Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities|Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences]] at Munich and members of the Liebig family. They were empowered to award gold and silver Liebig Medals to deserving German scientists "for the purpose of encouraging research in agricultural science". Silver medals could be awarded to scientists from other countries.<ref name=Pacific1893>{{cite news|title=Honors to Californian|url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP18931014.2.3|access-date=12 November 2014|work=Pacific Rural Press|agency=California Digital Newspaper Collection|volume=46|issue=16|date=14 October 1893}}</ref> Some of those who received medals include:
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* 1893, silver, [[John Bennet Lawes|Sir John Lawes]] and [[Joseph Henry Gilbert]], England<ref name=Gilbert1895>{{cite book|last1=Gilbert|first1=Sir Joseph Henry|title=Agricultural investigations at Rothamsted, England, during a period of fifty years: Six lectures delivered under the provisions of the Lawes agricultural trust|date=1895|publisher=Government Printing Office|location=Washington|page=[https://archive.org/details/agriculturalinve22gilb/page/7 7]|url=https://archive.org/details/agriculturalinve22gilb|access-date=12 November 2014}}</ref>
* 1894, silver, Professor [[Eugene Woldemar Hilgard]], United States, "for meritorious work in the investigation of the physical and chemical properties of soils."<ref name=Pacific1893/><ref name=Hinsdale>{{cite book|last1=Hinsdale|first1=B. A. (Burke Aaron)|editor-last=Demmon|editor-first=Isaac Newton|title=History of the University of Michigan, by the late Burke A. Hinsdale, with biographical sketches of the regents and members of the university Senate from 1837 to 1906|date=1906|publisher=Published by the University|location=Ann Arbor|url=http://umhistory.dc.umich.edu/history/Faculty_History/H/Hilgard,_Eugene_Woldemar.html|access-date=12 November 2014|archive-date=2 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802184827/http://umhistory.dc.umich.edu/history/Faculty_History/H/Hilgard,_Eugene_Woldemar.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 1896, gold, Professor [[Friedrich Stohmann]], professor of agricultural chemistry in [[Leipzig University]].<ref name=Nature1896>{{cite news|title=Notes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uiQ6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA32|access-date=12 November 2014|work=Nature|date=14 May 1896|last1 = Lockyer|first1 = Sir Norman}}</ref>
* 1899, gold, Albert Schultz-Lupitz, Germany<ref name=Killy>{{cite book|last1=Killy|first1=Walther|last2=Vierhaus|first2=Rudolf|title=Schmidt-Theyer|date=2005|publisher=K.G. Saur|location=München|isbn=3110966298|pages=196–197|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0-hrRQvGV7sC&pg=PA197|access-date=12 November 2014}}</ref>
* 1908, gold, [[Max Rubner]], Germany<ref name=Science1908>{{cite journal|title=Scientific Notes and News|journal=Science|date=24 July 1908|page=115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yVk9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA115|access-date=12 November 2014|doi=10.1126/science.28.708.114-a|volume=28|issue=708}}</ref>

In 1903, the [[Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker|Verein deutscher Chemiker]] (Association of German Chemists) also had a medal struck using Brehmer's portrait.<ref name=Brock/>{{rp|329}}  Their [[Liebig Medal]] was first awarded in 1903 to [[Adolf von Baeyer]], and in 1904 to Dr. [[Rudolf Knietsch]] of the Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik.<ref name=Dighton>{{cite news|title=Medal for Chemist|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/67423412/|access-date=11 November 2014|work=The Dighton Herald|publisher=Dighton, Kansas|date=1 September 1904}}</ref> {{as of | 2024}}, it continues to be awarded.<ref>{{Cite web| url=https://en.gdch.de/gdch/prizes-and-awards/gdch-awards/liebig-commemorative-medal.html | title=Liebig commemorative medal | language=en |date= 15 May 2024 |website=Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker |access-date=17 June 2024}}</ref>

At the third World Congress of CIEC, held at Heidelberg in 1957, the "Sprengel-Liebig Medal" was awarded to Dr. E. Feisst, president of CIEC, for outstanding contributions in agricultural chemistry.<ref name=OpeningAddress>{{cite web|last1=Hera|first1=Cristian|title=80 years dedicated to enhancing soil fertility and crop productivity|publisher=International Scientific Centre of Fertilizers Centre International des Engrais Chimiques (CIEC)|url=http://www.ciec-network.org/fileadmin/dam_uploads/Projektordner/General/CIEC%20History%2012%20sept%202013.pdf|access-date=11 November 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112003010/http://www.ciec-network.org/fileadmin/dam_uploads/Projektordner/General/CIEC%20History%2012%20sept%202013.pdf|archive-date=12 November 2014}}</ref>