Georg Vette
Georg Vette (born October 30, 1645 in Graudenz ; † June 11, 1704 in Sibiu / Transylvania ) was a Transylvanian pharmacist.
Life
Vette learned the art of pharmacy in Thorn . He then worked in Fraustadt and Danzig . In 1672 he was appointed head pharmacist in Sibiu in Transylvania. He published three observations in the Leopoldina's "Ephemerides" , with the first two observations being published under the name of Heinrich Vollgnad . Johann Georg Vette was in correspondence with him. In the first publication, Vette spoke of dragons that were native to Transylvania. There is also a drawing that presumably depicts the skull of a cave bear. In the second publication that Vette sent to Vollgnad on July 2, 1673, Vette wrote that he had found a bubbling spring four miles from Sibiu. This spring with bubbling water was at the foot of a vineyard. It contains many gas bubbles, can be ignited and then burns with a flame three feet high. The water does not heat up and has a salty taste. Full grace interpreted this phenomenon with the presence of subterranean vapors ("halitus subterraneos"). Vette's third treatise was about malformed plants, so-called cockscomb shapes.
power
- Discoverer of methane gas deposits in Transylvania
Publications in the "Ephemeris"
- Observatio 170 de Deaconibus carpathicis et transsylvanicis, eorum dentibus , 1675.
- Observatio 171 de aquis ardentibus Transsylvaniae , in the Decur. IA IV and V, 1675.
- Observatio 239: Rariora quadem naturae sive de Luxuriantibus quibusdam Transsylvaniae plantis: Mastago puta fasciato; Primula vers fasciate et Ranunculo fasciato, in the 6th year.
literature
- Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich , 50, 1884, pp. 229-230 digitized
- Joseph Trausch : Writer's Lexicon of the Transylvanian Germans , Vol. III, Kronstadt 1871, p. 457.
- Arnold Huttmann : Medicine in old Transylvania , Hora Verlag Hermannstadt / Sibiu 2000, p. 299 + 300.
- Heinz Heltmann: History of the pharmacy in the Hermannstadt district , in: Siebenbürgische Zeitung from March 15, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Gottlieb Jöcher: Allgemeine Gelehrten-Lexikon , 4th part, Leipzig 1751, p. 1705.
- ↑ A. Huttmann 2000, p. 300.
- ^ Siebenbürgische Zeitung: History of the pharmacy in Sibiu , accessed on November 20, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vette, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Transylvanian pharmacist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1645 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graudenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1704 |
| Place of death | Sibiu |