Georg Christian Kindt

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Georg Christian Kindt (born August 23, 1793 in Lübeck , † March 1, 1869 in Bremen ) was a German pharmacist and naturalist.

Life

Georg Christian Kindt was the younger son of the pharmacist Gabriel Ludolph Kindt (1748–1813) from Wismar in Lübeck and his wife Sophie Christine, b. Trendelenburg (1759–1821), a daughter of Karl Ludwig Friedrich Trendelenburg and sister of Theodor Friedrich Trendelenburg and Johann Georg Trendelenburg . The pharmacist Franz Friedrich Kindt was his older brother and took over the small pharmacy, later the Adler pharmacy , from his father in Lübeck.

The former sun pharmacy in Sögestraße in Bremen around 1890

Kindt visited the Katharineum in Lübeck and made an apprenticeship as a pharmacist from 1809 to 1813 with the pharmacist and chemist Johann Friedrich Westrumb in Hameln , where he found chemistry. As a pharmacist's assistant he worked with his brother in Lübeck and with the pharmacist Ernst Wilhelm Martius in Erlangen. In 1815 Kindt took part in the Hanseatic Legion in the Wars of Liberation . From 1817 to 1818 he managed the court pharmacy in Wismar , which was once run by his grandfather. In 1818 he came to the Sonnenapotheke at Sögestraße 18 in Bremen and was its owner from 1819 to 1854. The imposing Weser Renaissance building built by Lüder von Bentheim was destroyed in an air raid in 1944. Georg Christian Kindt, like his older brother in Lübeck, was open to all technical innovations and introduced the latest physical and chemical apparatus and methods in Bremen, so that his pharmacy became a scientific center of the city. At an early stage, under the influence of Gustav Woldemar Focke, he adopted microscopy as an examination method. In 1849 he was the first to purchase a microscope eyepiece from Carl Kellner and Moritz Hensoldt .

One of his many students was the chemist Hermann Fehling from Lübeck . Kindt was the founding director of the Natural Science Association in Bremen . He wrote for the Polytechnic Journal of Emil Maximilian Dingler and written numerous reports for Bremen authorities, citizens and manufacturers.

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  1. ^ Museum of Optical Instruments
personal data
SURNAME Kindt, Georg Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1869
Place of death Bremen