Christian Gottlieb Bonz

Christian Gottlieb Bonz (born June 20, 1820 in Böblingen ; † March 29, 1853 there ) was a German pharmacist , chemist and entrepreneur .

Life

His father Josef Gottlieb Bonz (1787–1860) completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Frankfurt for six years, then worked as an assistant in Mainz and passed the pharmacist exams in Lausanne. In 1812 he passed the "assistant exam" in Stuttgart in order to be allowed to work as a chemist, since the Swiss university degrees were not recognized in Württemberg (he never obtained his pharmacy exam because he had to be in possession of a pharmacy to do so). In 1812/13 he was a pharmacist's assistant in Stuttgart and until 1815 in Frankfurt with his teacher. Josef Gottlieb Bonz was hired by Metzger and Kayser in 1815 to set up a chemical factory and in 1819 he and Gottlob Klaiber founded a chemical factory himself in Böblingen. In 1847, Josef Gottlieb Bonz acquired the shares from G. Klaiber and transferred some of them to his eldest son Christian Gottlieb Bonz (he had eight children). From now on the factory operated under the name “Bonz and Son”, chemical factory. Christian also learned a few months with Gotthilf Daniel Schumann in Plieningen and was an assistant in his father's very successful factory in Böblingen for 5½ years. He studied pharmacy for 2 semesters at the University of Göttingen and passed his pharmacy exam in Stuttgart in 1847 to enter his father's factory.

At the chemical factory “Bonz und Sohn” he mainly worked in the acquisition area until he died of a heart condition at the age of 32. His widow married the pharmacist Villinger, who was co-owner of the company for several years. In addition to Jobst , the Bonzsche factory in Böblingen was the most important company in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry in Württemberg . After his death, his younger brother, the chemist Ernst Gottlieb Theodor Bonz (* 1832 in Böblingen - 1898 in Böblingen) took over the partnership with his father JG Bonz.

literature

• Wolfgang-Hagen Hein, Holm-Dietmar Schwarz (eds.): Deutsche Apotheker-Biographie Volume 1, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Stuttgart 1975, p. 71.
• Wolfgang Bonz: The story of the Bonz families in Böblingen , 2013
• Erich Kläger: Böblingen - history in shapes. From the beginning to the end of the Brumme era , Böblingen 2003, excerpt
• Armin Wankmüller: Pharmacist's assistant Christoph Gottlieb Bonz, factory owner in Böblingen , in: Contributions to Württemberg pharmacy history, Volume 14, 1983, Issue 1, p. 132 (meaning Josef Gottlieb Bonz), digitized version