Editing Benjamin Thompson (section)

== Bavarian maturity ==
[[File:Rumford Tyroff BY 2-05 (cropped 2).jpg|thumb|Thompson's arms as ''[[Imperial Count|Reichsgraf]] von Rumford'']]
[[Image:Englischer garten fg02.jpg|thumb|The beer garden "Am chinesischen Turm" in the [[Englischer Garten]] in [[Munich]]]]
[[File:Uniform-Bilder Königlich Bayerisches Infanterie-Regiment Großherzog Ernst Ludwig von Hessen 003 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Bavarian uniforms designed by Benjamin Thompson, also known in Bavaria as Reichsgraf von Rumford]]

In 1785, he moved to [[Electorate of Bavaria|Bavaria]] where he became an ''[[aide-de-camp]]'' to the [[Prince-elector]] [[Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria|Charles Theodore]]. He spent eleven years in Bavaria, reorganizing the army and establishing [[workhouse]]s for the poor. He also invented [[Rumford's Soup]], a soup for the poor,<ref>{{cite book | last1=Kellogg | first1=D.O. | last2=Baynes | first2=T.S. | last3=Smith | first3=W.R. | title=The Encyclopædia Britannica: New American supplement. A-ZUY | publisher=Werner | series=The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature. Original 9th Ed. in 25 Vols | year=1903 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Su8hAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA673 | access-date=24 January 2015 | page=673}}</ref> and established the cultivation of the [[potato]] in Bavaria.  He studied methods of cooking, heating, and lighting, including the relative costs and efficiencies of [[wax]] [[candles]], [[tallow]] [[candle]]s, and [[oil lamp]]s.<ref>
{{cite book
 | title = The Encyclopedia Americana
 | chapter = Lamp
 | publisher = Encyclopedia Americana Corp
 | year = 1919
 | volume = 16
 | page = 681
 | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IbZPAAAAMAAJ&q=benjamin-thompson++wax+candle&pg=PA681
 }}</ref>
On Prince Charles' behalf he created the [[Englischer Garten]] in [[Munich]] in 1789; it remains today and is known as one of the largest urban public parks in the world. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1789.<ref name="AAAS">{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter T|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterT.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=7 April 2011}}</ref>

For his efforts, in 1791 Thompson was made an [[Imperial Count]], becoming ''Reichsgraf von Rumford''. He took the name "Rumford" after the town of Rumford, New Hampshire, which was an older name for [[Concord, New Hampshire|Concord]] where he had been married.<ref>{{cite book | author= Bouton, Nathaniel|author-link=Nathaniel Bouton| title=The History of Concord: From Its First Grant in 1725 to the Organization of the City Government in 1853| url= https://archive.org/details/historyconcordf01boutgoog| location=Concord | publisher=Benning W. Sanford | year=1857 }}</ref>