Christoph Fahrner

Christoph Fahrner (* 1616 in Sulz am Neckar ; † 1688 ?) Was a schoolmaster and mayor in Löchgau , Speyer cathedral monastery conductor, remedy manufacturer and chemist.

He was an opponent of Johann Rudolph Glauber , whose Germany Wolfart he criticized and with whom he fought a pamphlet war from 1655 to 1659 .

Since 1642 at the latest , Fahrner has been a schoolmaster in Löchgau. He was 26 years old at the time, so he must have been born in 1616. In 1656 he was appointed mayor of Löchgau. The office of administrator of the Speyer estates in Löchgau, which is often associated with the mayor's office, was held in 1647.

In the last years of the Thirty Years' War Fahrner had already begun to deal with all kinds of medicines. In 1649 he gave up the schoolmaster's office and devoted himself intensively to chemistry.

The decisive factor for him was his acquaintance with Johann Rudolph Glauber, the discoverer of the Glauber's salt named after him, who is considered a pioneer of chemistry at that time. As a result, several license fee agreements were signed between the two chemists, which led to a public dispute. Despite or perhaps because of Glauber's media campaign, Fahrner was also considered an authority far from Württemberg. At that time he was undoubtedly one of the most important drug manufacturers and chemists in the country.

His successor in the mayor's office and as a Speyer conductor was his son Johann Jakob Fahrner in 1688.

literature

• Thomas Schulz (editor) Löchgau - Contributions to local history , Ludwigsburg 2004, pp. 127–135.

Works

• Christoff Fahrners / [et] c. Refutation / or rather a warning / Before the huge explicatio Miraculi mundi, and the fraudulent wandering of Germany's Johann Rudolph Glauber, so that the art-hungry does not get into great expense and damage / but only keep the useful (which is little) / and the bad and I want to discard harmful / everything faithfully from the author himself at no small cost / and therefore describe and reveal. Published: Stuttgart: Rößlin, 1656.
• Rescue of honor Christoff Fahrner's Speyrischen Thumbstiffts Schaffner zu Löchgew / Wider Die applied Apologi, but rather lugenhaffte Lästerschrifft / Johann Rudolph Glaubers: warinn thoroughly explained / and will reveal / what to think about Glauber's person / as well as his ... arts / Sampt Attacked responsibility Anthonii Nissen / because of Glauber's unfair abuse and slander. Edition: Opened for the second time. Published: Stuttgart: Rößlin, 1656.
• Glauberus Nondum Vivus. That is: not to answer the living-dead believer: but only the appendix given to the favorable reader on Kurtzweil or Nachdencken , Stuttgart: Johann Weyrich Rößlin: 1657.

Web links

• Publications by and about Christoph Fahrner in VD 17 .
• Fahrner is mentioned several times in Richard Karg: History of the village of Löchgau , manuscript, 1952 (PDF, 508 kB).