Franz Friedrich Kindt

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Franz Friedrich Kindt (born June 14, 1786 in Lübeck ; † March 26, 1856 there ) was a German pharmacist and naturalist .

Life

Franz Friedrich Kindt was the eldest son of the pharmacist Gabriel Ludolph Kindt (1748–1813) from Wismar in Lübeck and his wife Sophie Christine, nee. Trendelenburg (1759–1821), a daughter of Karl Ludwig Friedrich Trendelenburg and sister of Theodor Friedrich Trendelenburg and Johann Georg Trendelenburg . He did his apprenticeship as a pharmacist with Arend Joachim Friedrich Wiegmann at the court pharmacy in Braunschweig and then completed his knowledge at the University of Göttingen . He then returned to Lübeck and initially ran the business of his father's small pharmacy , which later became the Adler pharmacy, until his father's death in 1813, only to take it over completely after his father's death. At that time (and until 1884) the pharmacy was located at Alfstrasse 12. In 1813 he was one of the citizens of Lübeck during the French era , who were taken hostage from Lübeck to the ship Ceres in the port of Hamburg by the French occupation . In 1814 he became a member of the Schonenfahrer in Lübeck.

In Göttingen he had come into contact with leading chemists of his time and kept them up all his life. He earned a reputation as a chemist, but also as a botanist and mineralogist. On these areas he also gave lectures in the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities , to which he had been a member since 1814 and of which he was temporarily a member of the board of directors. Very open to technical innovations, he introduced gas lighting with self-generated gas in his house in 1817 and connected it to the new public supply network when the gas supply in Lübeck began in 1854. The laboratory of his pharmacy was already using self-generated steam as a cooking source from 1827. From 1824 he instructed his assistant and laboratory assistant Gottfried Renatus Häcker in mineralogy and botany. Häcker, who stayed with him until Kindt's death, wrote the first botanical record of Lübeck's territory in 1844.

Kindt was often involved in voluntary work: he was head of the civil water art (where he introduced the first iron pipes), at St. Jürgen, the Glandorp Foundation, the Lübeck orphanage and the cholera orphanage after the epidemic in 1832. He served the non-profit society as head of the 1817–1820 and 1829–1833, as head of the technical institute 1828–1834, as head of the natural history collection (later in the Museum am Dom ), from 1817 to 1836. He was a member of the committee for the swimming school from 1820 to 1835, the committee for teaching deaf and blind children from 1827 to 1841 and auditor of the Sparkasse in 1823 and 1824.

From 1812 he was married to Ferdinandine Pruis from Braunschweig without children. The pharmacist and naturalist Georg Christian Kindt (1793–1869), who worked in Bremen, was the younger brother.

His abandoned library was auctioned on October 6, 1856 by F. Förster in Leipzig.

Fonts

Kindt dealt with the cleaning of beet sugar in his publications .

Honors

  • 1830 honorary member of the North German Pharmacists' Association, 1846 full member
  • 1837 member of the Swedish Horticultural Association
  • 1840 corresponding member of the pharmacists' association in Hamburg

literature

  • E. Geffcken: Lübeck district assembly on October 10, 1860 in: Archiv der Pharmazie 11 (1861), pp. 346–348
  • Franz Friedrich Kindt in: German Pharmacist Biography , ed. v. W.-H. Hein et al. H.-D. Black, 1975.
  • Hans-Bernd Spies: History of the Adler Pharmacy. A contribution to the Lübeck pharmacy system; 1633-1983, 350 years of Adler-Apotheke Lübeck . Peters & Son, 1983
  • Rüdiger Kurowski: Medical lectures in the Lübeck Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities 1789-1839: a patriotic society during the Enlightenment and Romanticism. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1995 ISBN 3-7950-0463-2 , pp. 138f

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Adlung: On the history of the Lübeck pharmacy system Archived copy ( Memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (increase the final number of the pdfs for the following pages.)
  2. ^ Wilhelm Olbers Focke:  Kindt, Georg Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 769 f .; Erika Hickel :  Georg Christian Kindt. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 621 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ New Gazette for Bibliography and Library Studies , 1856
personal data
SURNAME Kindt, Franz Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1856
Place of death Lübeck