Christian Gotthold Engelmann (1787–1847)
Christian Gotthold Engelmann (born December 8, 1787 in Ochsenburg , † March 13, 1847 in Stuttgart ) was a German pharmacist and chemical manufacturer . His son of the same name Christian Gotthold Engelmann (1819-1884) was also a pharmacist and chemical manufacturer and founded the Engelmann family's Basel line.
Life
Christian Gotthold Engelmann was born on December 8, 1787 in Ochsenburg, from 1975 a suburb of Zaberfeld . His father was the coopier of the same name, Christian Gotthold Engelmann. His mother was Christiane Juliane Boehringer, the daughter of the Ochsenburg cellar cooper, Johann Christoph Boehringer.
Engelmann completed an apprenticeship with the pharmacist Hahn in Güglingen from 1802 to 1806. From 1806 he was an assistant in a pharmacy in Stuttgart for a year, from 1807 he was an assistant in Schaffhausen, from 1809 to 1812 in Bern and from 1812 in Geneva. After all, from autumn 1813 to July 1814 he was an assistant in the court pharmacy in Stuttgart. He was sentenced to five months of imprisonment because of the mix-up of drugs that harmed some orphans. After his release he passed the pharmacist exam in Stuttgart on December 20, 1815, in which he was certified as having good knowledge and skills.
In 1817 Engelmann married the widow Gottliebin Balz in Lauffen am Neckar, owner of a materials store. Christian Friedrich Boehringer (1791–1867) also married Engelmann's sister Beate Gottliebin Engelmann in 1817. Engelmann relocated the materials store from Lauffen to Stuttgart and together with his brother-in-law Boehringer founded the "Engelmann & Boehringer material and color goods wholesaler". They bought the house at Marienstraße 2, in which they set up their office and apartments. They also acquired a site behind the Hauptstätter Tor, where they built a one-story laboratory for the production of drugs and chemical substances. After Engelmann's death in 1847, the company built a new laboratory at Rothebühlstrasse 100 in 1855.
Engelmann died on March 13, 1847 at the age of 60 in Stuttgart. His wife survived him by 20 years, she died at the age of 76 on September 26, 1867 in Gernsbach im Murgtal.
family
Engelmann's father Christian Gotthold Engelmann (1766-1826) was like his grandfather Johann Gottfried Engelmann winery cooper in Kirchheim am Neckar , from 1813 he was court cooper in Stuttgart. In 1786 he married Christiane Juliane Böhringer (1761–1822). The marriage had four children:
- Christian Gotthold Engelmann, b. December 8, 1787.
- Christof Gottfried Engelmann, b. March 20, 1789.
- Beate Gottliebin Boehringer b. Engelmann (1793–1823), 1st wife of the merchant Christian Friedrich Boehringer, married in 1817.
- Johanna Gottliebin Boehringer b. Engelmann (1800–1832), 2nd wife of the businessman Christian Friedrich Boehringer, married in 1823.
literature
- Robert Boehringer : The Mr. Cousin. With drawings by Karl Dick. Solitude publishing house, Stuttgart 1954.
- Andreas Buchner: Note about the hydrometers from Mr. Engelmann and Böhringer in Stuttgart. In: Repertorium für die Pharmacie, Volume 16. 1824, pp. 420-422, pdf .
- Boehringer. In: Rudolf Vierhaus (editor): German biographical encyclopedia (DBE). Volume 1. Aachen – Braniss. Saur, Munich 2005, p. 779.
- Armin Wankmueller: Württemberg pharmacists in Basel - life data, numbers 87-88. In: Contributions to the history of pharmacies in Württemberg, Volume 10. 1973–1975, pp. 119–120, pdf .
- Armin Wankmueller: Pharmacist Christian Gotthold Engelmann in Stuttgart. In: Contributions to the history of pharmacies in Württemberg, Volume 16. 1990, Issue 5, pp. 133-136, pdf .
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ #Boehringer 1954 .
- ^ Stuttgart address books 1833–1857.
- ↑ #Wankmueller 1990 , #Vierhaus 2005 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Engelmann, Christian Gotthold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmacist and chemical manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1787 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ochsenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1847 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |