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His great reputation led to his being entrusted by the government with several missions; e.g. in 1865 he represented Prussia in the conference called at Frankfurt am Main to introduce a uniform metric system of weights and measures into Germany. He married in 1840 Bertha Humblot, of a French Huguenot family settled in Berlin, by whom he left a son and two daughters. The Jewish Encyclopedia lists him as a convert to the Protestant religion. One of Gustav Magnus's five brothers, Eduard Magnus (1799–1872), was a notable portrait painter.
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