Georg Eimbke

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Georg Eimbke (born December 17, 1771 in Hamburg , † March 20, 1843 in Hamburg-Eppendorf ) was a German physician, physicist and pharmacist.

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Georg Eimbke was a son of the Hamburg merchant Georg Heinrich Eimbke (born April 29, 1724 in Lüneburg ; † February 8, 1778 in Hamburg) and his second wife Maria Elisabeth Boetefeur (born July 10, 1736 in Hamburg; † March 24, 1812) who married on October 19, 1762. The maternal grandfather who was top Old of St. Nicholas , Philip Boetefeur, who had been married to Maria Elisabeth Behrmann.

Eimbke attended the learned school of the Johanneum and the academic high school and studied medicine in Halle from 1791. During his studies he neglected the main subject and preferred to deal with physical and chemical issues from the areas of phlogiston theory and imponderables, which were considered at the time . He attended lectures by Friedrich Albrecht Carl Grens . He presented his own findings in 1793 in the writings Experiments on Warmth and Attempts at a Systematic Nomenclature for Phlogistic and Anti-inflammatory Chemistry .

In 1793 Eimbke moved to the University of Kiel , where he received his doctorate at the philological faculty the following year. He completed his habilitation in chemistry and physics. In his dissertation he dealt with the chemical analysis of mineral springs near Oldesloe . He then taught chemistry and experimental physics with great success as a private lecturer at Kiel University. Since he had higher hopes for a chair in the field of medicine, he enrolled in the medical faculty for a doctorate in 1794. The faculty appointed him an adjunct on January 23, 1795 .

From 1795 onwards, Eimbke taught almost exclusively on physical and chemical subjects. He was able to deal with issues of heat and the systematic structure of the chemical elements in lectures and to carry out experiments with students. Central questions of the then current developments in physics found their way into the curriculum of the university for the first time. Based on experiments Eimbke published in 1794 the work on the glow of phosphor in nitrogen gas .

Eimbke used his own money to procure physical and chemical devices with which he wanted to create a physical collection. The university didn't help him, which is why he got financial problems. He tried unsuccessfully to a chair at the medical school and moved in 1797, the Inspector General of now Royal Danish Saline ( Travelodge salts ) to Oldesloe. This was the only contact he had there. During this time he wrote only one paper on the conversion of organic to inorganic substances during putrefaction.

In 1806 Eimbke asked to be allowed to leave Oldesloe. He went to Hamburg, where from 1806 to 1839, as a resident pharmacist, he devoted himself to his physical collection. His pharmacy was located on Neuer Wall and became the largest pharmacy in Hamburg. In 1813 he designed several medical devices. In 1821 he presented a spirit lamp and a pressure pump that he had invented. In addition, he dealt with botany and herbal medicine. In these areas he was a renowned specialist in Hamburg.

Eimbke played a key role in the section From the Pharmacists of the Hamburg Medical Regulations of 1818, according to which pharmacists were no longer allowed to settle freely. For the first time, the ordinance provided for an examination by the authorities as to whether new pharmacies were necessary and allowed existing corner pharmacies to be closed. At the same time, it prescribed regular visits to pharmacies and prescribed state examinations and swearing-in of pharmacists. In addition, Eimbke wrote a Hamburg pharmacopoeia with the Apparatus medicaminum , which the authorities did not officially introduce, but recognized and recommended to pharmacists. In 1820 he wrote the first Hamburg medicine tax.

From 1818 to 1832 he had a seat on the city's health council as a pharmaceutical member. From 1824 he was the founding director of the Pharmaceutical Training Institute of the Health Council in Hamburg , which existed until 1935.

Eimbke wanted to get an overview of the medicinal herbs that exist in Altona and to structure them systematically. Therefore, he compiled a list of medicinal herbs that came out in 1822.

family

On October 8, 1794, Eimbke Marie Henriette married Emilie de Chaufepié (born October 18, 1774 in Hamburg; † 1795). She was a daughter of the doctor Pierre Samuel de Chaufepié and sister of the Hamburg doctor Johann Heinrich de Chaufepié . In his second marriage, he married Friederike Henriette de Chaufepié on January 26, 1797 in Hamburg (born November 19, 1778 in Hamburg; † December 18, 1869). She was the sister of his first wife.

Both marriages remained childless.

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  1. ↑ Charlotte Schönbeck: Eimbke, Georg . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 84.
  2. ↑ Charlotte Schönbeck: Eimbke, Georg . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , p. 84.
  3. ↑ Charlotte Schönbeck: Eimbke, Georg . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , p. 84.
  4. ↑ Charlotte Schönbeck: Eimbke, Georg . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 84.
  5. ↑ In 1797 it was transferred from the private property of Count Georg Werner August Dietrich von Münster to the Danish crown.
  6. ↑ Charlotte Schönbeck: Eimbke, Georg . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , pp. 84-85.
  7. ↑ Charlotte Schönbeck: Eimbke, Georg . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 84.
  8. ↑ Georg Edmund Then:  Eimbke, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 393 ( digitized version ).
  9. ↑ Charlotte Schönbeck: Eimbke, Georg . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 85.
  10. ↑ Charlotte Schönbeck: Eimbke, Georg . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , p. 85.
  11. ↑ Georg Edmund Then:  Eimbke, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 393 ( digitized version ).
  12. ^ The pharmaceutical training institute of the Health Council in Hamburg (1824-1935) , chemistry department of the University of Hamburg
  13. ↑ Charlotte Schönbeck: Eimbke, Georg . in: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon . Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979. ISBN 3-529-02645-X , page 85.
personal data
SURNAME Eimbke, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, physicist and pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1843
Place of death Hamburg-Eppendorf