German chemist (1753-1809)
Description of a portable chest of chemistry , 1791 Johann Friedrich August Göttling (5 June 1753 – 1 September 1809) was a notable German chemist.
Gottling developed and sold chemical assay kits and studied processes for extracting sugar from beets [1] to supplement his meagre university salary. He studied the chemistry of sulphur , arsenic , phosphorus , and mercury .[1] He wrote texts on analytical chemistry and studied oxidation of organic compounds by nitric acid . He was one of the first scientists in Germany to take a stand against the phlogiston hypothesis and be in favor of the new chemistry of Lavoisier .[1]
Biography He studied pharmacy at Langensalza under Johann Christian Wiegleb , and from 1775 worked at the Hofapotheke (court pharmacy) in Weimar .[1] [2] From 1785, Göttling studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen . In 1789, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe arranged for him to be an associate professor of chemistry and technology at the University of Jena .[3] For a period of time, Göttling served as Goethe's primary source for chemical knowledge.[4]
He was notably the teacher of Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner .
Selected works Praktische Vortheile und Verbesserungen verschiedener pharmaceutisch-chemischer Operationen für Apotheker , 1783.Beytrag, zur Berichtigung der anti-phlogistischen Chemie auf Versuche gegründet , 1794.Chemische Bemerkungen über das phosphorsaure Quecksilber und Hrn. Hahnemanns schwarzen Quecksilberkalk , 1795.[5] Handbuch der theoretischen und praktischen Chemie , 1798–1800 (3 volumes).Elementarbuch der chemischen Experimentirkunst , 1808–09 (2 volumes).He was also an editor of the journal Taschenbuch für Scheidekünstler und Apotheker .[6]
References ^ a b c d Göttling , Johann Friedrich August @ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie ^ Chemische Probierkabinette Aus der Einführung zu "Chemische Probierkabinette" von Prof. Dr. Georg Schwedt ^ Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory edited by Ursula Klein, E. C. Spary ^ Goethe Contra Newton: Polemics and the Project for a New Science of Color by Dennis L. Sepper ^ OCLC WorldCat (publications) ^ WorldCat Search published works K. Hufbauer, The Formation of the German Chemical Community (1720-1795), University of California Press, 1982, pp. 207–208. Pharmazie, 1962, 17 , pp. 624–634.Neue Deutsche Biographie , Duncker & Humblot, 1953-1990, 6 , pp. 580–581.Duncker & Humblot (1964), "Gottling, Johann Friedrich August", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 6, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 580–581 Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte , Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1962, 2 , p. 787.Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales Biographie Medicale, C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1820-1822, 4 , pp. 473–474.