August Peter Julius du Menil

August Peter Julius du Menil (born November 2, 1777 in Celle ; † July 28, 1852 ) was a pharmacist in Wunstorf , co-founder and co-director of the North German pharmacists' association, director of the powder and salt works as well as royal Hanoverian secret chief mining commissioner and court councilor of the royal schaumburg. In the course of his life he has published numerous papers and treatises on chemistry, pharmacy and mineralogy.

Publications

• The theory of reagents for plant analysis ... ; Celle 1841
• Metric recoveries for his friends ... ; Celle 1852
• Handbook of reagents and decomposition .. ; Lemgo 1837
• Faithful guide for working chemists and friends of analytical chemistry ( online )
• Chemical research in the field of inorganic nature
• Guide to the chemical investigation of natural bodies for all .. ; Gotha, 1829
• A few words about the presumptuous public statements of some naturalists, especially the chemists and physicists about the work of their scientific relatives, spoken in the Linneischer Vereinjahre, November 8th, 1827 in Minden (online)
• New chemical-physical investigation of the sulfur waters as well as the bathing mud at Eilsen: in addition to gasometric observations of the atmosphere of the area there ; Hanover: Lamminger and Rosenbusch , 1826
• Analysis of a rocky meteor mass that fell near Ovelgönne in Oldenburg on 6 Aug. 1820 ; (on-line)

literature

• Christoph Friedrich: Letters in the 19th Century as a Source of Science and History. Shown using the example of the correspondence of the pharmacist APJ Du Menil (1777–1852). In: Reports on the history of science . 14, 1991, pp. 181-195.

Web links

Wikisource: August Peter Julius du Mênil  - Sources and full texts