Carl Christoph Grischow

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Carl Christoph Grischow (born February 17, 1793 in Stavenhagen ; † December 17, 1860 there ) was a German pharmacist .

Life

Carl Christoph Grischow was a son of Johann Christoph Grischow, the owner of the pharmacy in Stavenhagen in Mecklenburg-Schwerin . As a five-year-old boy in 1798 he lost both parents as a result of accidental poisoning and then grew up with his uncle in Ivenack . At the age of 14, he started an apprenticeship at court pharmacist Krüger in Rostock in 1807 . After completing his four-year apprenticeship, he went to Stralsund in 1811 , where he worked with distinction in a French military hospital pharmacy. After studying pharmacy at the University of Rostock in 1813 , he took over his father's pharmacy in Stavenhagen in 1814, which August Friedrich Herse had run for 16 years up to this point. He later became the guardian of Fritz Reuter , with whom he became friends. In 1848 he was chairman of the Reform Association in Stavenhagen and from 1849–58 city spokesman there.

Grischow examined mineral springs and was occasionally heard in the chemical-pharmaceutical journals, but made a name for himself in particular through his text Physico-chemical investigations on the respiration of plants and their influence on the common air (Leipzig 1819). In 1821 he was accepted as a member of the Leopoldina and in 1822 an honorary member of the North German Pharmacists' Association. Because of his literary merits, he received an honorary doctorate from the philosophical faculty of the University of Rostock in 1830 .

Works (selection)

  • Contributions to the chemical knowledge of plant life. First piece. Physico-chemical studies on the respiration of plants and their influence on the common air. Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1819 (digitized version)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Grischow, Carl Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Stavenhagen
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1860
Place of death Stavenhagen