Ernst Friedrich Felix Rumpf

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Ernst Friedrich Felix Rumpf (born November 7, 1764 in Oberroßbach ; † March 27, 1849 in Bamberg ) was a German pharmacist and chemist , head of the Zum Schwarzen Adler pharmacy, as well as a medical assessor in the medical committee and professor of preparatory teaching at the surgical school in Bamberg .

Life

Ernst Friedrich Felix Rumpf was a son of the second pastor in Oberroßbach Johann Georg Friedrich Rumpf (1729–1774) and his wife Susanne Marie, a daughter of the pastor Seiler in Schwalheim near Friedberg. The literary scholar, rhetorician, Protestant theologian and classical philologist Friedrich Karl Rumpf was a younger brother. The chemist and mineralogist Ludwig Rumpf was his son. His daughter Susanna was married to the Würzburg anatomy professor Martin Münz and his daughter Maria Kunigunda (1804-1838) to the pharmacist and later mayor and member of the state parliament Georg Michael Schmidt (1799-1865). The German-American physician and Social Revolutionary Ernst Schmidt was his grandson and godchild.

Rumpf attended Latin school and grammar school in Giessen and then decided to train as a pharmacist with the pharmacist Trapp in Friedberg . After a time as an assistant in Hersfeld, Mainz and Bamberg, he was employed in 1788 after the death of the court pharmacist Frey as a provisional agent of the court pharmacy in Bamberg. A few years later he took over the pharmacy Zum schwarzen Adler in Bamberg from the widow of the pharmacist Anton Richter, who died in 1786, through the marriage of his daughter . He later handed the pharmacy over to his son Friedrich Rumpf, whose widow later sold it to the pharmacist Adolph Bail.

In 1795 he was appointed full auditor of all state pharmacies of the prince-bishop's administration and in 1800 he was appointed associate professor for chemistry and pharmacy at the University of Bamberg. Against the background of the inadequate equipment of the university, he set up a lecture hall and laboratory in his own house at his own expense. In 1803 he became associate professor of chemistry and pharmacy at the Lyceum and the clinical school as well as associate assessor at the Collegium Medicum.

On February 2, 1809 he was appointed Medicinalassessor in the Medical Committee in Bamberg and in 1823 he was appointed professor of preparatory teaching at the surgical school in Bamberg. In 1830 he resigned from his professorship. In 1833, at his own request, he was relieved of his duties as a medical assessor for health reasons, but his title and rank were retained by the Bavarian king due to his services.

On August 3, 1819, Ernst Friedrich Rumpf was registered under matriculation no. Elected member of the Leopoldina in 1141 with the academic surname Wieglebius .

Rumpf was a Freemason and on October 16, 1809 was accepted as a member of the Frankfurt Freemason Lodge Zur Einigkeit .

After his death in 1849 , the Royal Library of Bamberg received from his library 500 volumes, mainly of chemical and scientific books.

literature

  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann , Jena 1860, p. 249 (archive.org) .
  • Nekrolog Ernst Friedrich Felix Rumpf . In: Pharmaceutical correspondence sheet for southern Germany . 10, Enke, Erlangen 1852, pp. 94-96 digitized

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Medicinisch-surgical newspaper. 1833, 4, Innsbruck 1833, p. 29 digitized
  2. ^ Annals of the Lodge for Unity, the English Provincial Lodge, as well as the Provincial and Directorial Lodge of the eclectic Federation in Frankfurt am Main. 1742-1811. A solemn offering given at the secular celebration of the Lodge for Unity on June 27, 1842 . Frankfurt am Main 1842, p. 339 digitized