Friedrich Adolph August Struve

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Inscription on the Neustädter Stadtapotheke

Friedrich Adolph August Struve (born May 9, 1781 in Neustadt in Saxony , † September 29, 1840 in Berlin ) was a German doctor and pharmacist .

Life

Both father and grandfather were doctors. The grandfather, who died in Saint Petersburg in 1743, was the personal physician of Duke Ulrich von Holstein-Gottorp, who later became Tsar Peter III. After Struve had graduated from the Princely School St. Afra in Meißen , he began studying medicine at the universities of Leipzig and Halle , which he successfully completed with a doctorate. He then went on a study trip through Austria with a longer stay in Vienna .

In 1803 he returned and settled as a doctor in Neustadt bei Stolpen . Two years later in Dresden he married the niece of the pharmacist Bredemann, owner of the Salomonis pharmacy at Dresden Neumarkt 8, which he took over in 1806. His first wife died in 1807 at the age of 19. He had five children with his second wife from Mittweida .

Due to a poisoning illness, which he contracted during experiments with hydrogen cyanide, he was engaged in the production of artificial mineral water . After several stays in Karlsbad and Marienbad , Struve opened the first drinking spa (Struve's Brunnen Anstalt) in Dresden's Seevorstadt in 1821 . He teamed up with the Berlin pharmacist Conrad Heinrich Soltmann . In Berlin , Cologne , Leipzig , Kiev , Koenigsberg , Moscow , Saint Petersburg and Warsaw, as well as in the English seaside resort of Brighton , further branches soon opened.

Struve's grave in the Trinity Cemetery in Dresden

For his services in the construction and operation of the mineral water drinking establishments, he was appointed a knight of the Royal Saxon Civil Order by the Saxon King in 1823 . In September 1830 Struve played an important role during the uprising in Dresden . He was then very involved in local politics. From 1833 until his death he was a deputy member, from 1837 a member of the city of Dresden in the second chamber of the Saxon state parliament .

At the age of 59, Friedrich Adolph August Struve died on September 29, 1840 in Berlin with his youngest daughter Maria Theresia, who was married to the physician Friedrich Wilhelm August Vetter . He was buried in the Trinity cemetery in Dresden in the Struve family grave.

The artificial mineral water is the scientifically exact replica of the natural mineral water by Struve. As a scientist, he put forward a theory about the formation of natural mineral waters through the leaching of volcanic rocks and refuted theories that assumed the work of supernatural forces.

According to the current Drinking Water Ordinance, artificial mineral waters according to Struve are no longer allowed to be designated as such, as they fall under the Medicines Act with its strict rules as medicinal products. Mineral water must not be changed by additives. The Struvesche Wässer were therefore called table or soda waters and were produced in Dresden until 1969.

Works

  • About the replication of the natural healing springs , 1824–1826 digitized version

literature

  • Julius Pagel :  Adolf August Struve . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 676 f.
  • Ingrid Grosse: Friedrich Adolph August Struve, a Saxon scientist, inventor, politician. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , issue 2/2010, pp. 109–126
  • Ingrid Grosse: A great son of Neustadt: Friedrich Adolph August Struve (1781-1840). In: Neustädter Anzeiger 19/2010, p. 19
  • Friedrich Adolph August Struve and his work. In: Klaus Kiefer: Mineralwässer, GOVI Verlag 1999, pp. 150–188 ISBN 3-7741-0744-0
  • Hermann Eberhard Richter: To the jubilee of the Struve'schen Mineralwasser-Anstalten. Dedicated to the memory of Friedrich Adolf Struve . Dresden 1871 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Otto Jakob Ewich : The mineral water factory and drinking establishment of Dr. Ewich in Cologne, its hemorrhoidal water and the Cologne mineral water industry . In: Hofrat Dr. Spengler (ed.): Archive for balneology . 1st volume, 1st issue. Verlag der JH Heuser'schen Buchhandlung, Neuwied 1862, p. 164–168 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Presidents and Members of Parliament from 1833 to 1952 , Dresden 2001, p. 130
personal data
SURNAME Struve, Friedrich Adolph August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt in Saxony
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1840
Place of death Berlin