Danish chemist and physicist Hans Christian Oersted discovered aluminum in 1825 in Denmark. He reacted anhydrous aluminum chloride with potassium amalgam.
Http://www.alunet.net/shownews.asp?ID=490&type=3 www.chemistryexplained.com http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/Al.html scroll 3/4 down this page to the heading WHO/WHERE/WHEN/HOW - this site states the Hans Christian Oersted discovered it in Copenhagen Denmark in the year 1825. It's Latin name is alumen and comes from the earths crust, seawater, the atmosphere and sun.
Aluminium is a chemical element which is characterized as a poor metal. It was discovered by Hans Christian Oersted in Copenhagen Denmark. It was during the year 1825. You can find all the details on the discovery of the metal at the link below: en.wikipedia.org
The earliest citation given in the Oxford English Dictionary for any word used as a name for this element is alumium, which British chemist and inventor Humphry Davy employed in 1808 for the metal he was trying to isolate electrolytically from the mineral alumina. The citation is from the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: "Had I been so fortunate as to have obtained more certain evidences on this subject, and to have procured the metallic substances I was in search of, I should have proposed for them the names of silicium, alumium, zirconium, and glucium ."[46][47]
Lavosier discovered it in 1877. However, Wohler is generally credited in 1827 for having isolated the metal although an impure form was prepared by Oersted two years earlier
