Gustav Mähl

Gustav Peter Samuel Mähl , also Peter Samuel Gustav Mähl (born November 24, 1789 in Rostock , † October 20, 1833 ibid) was a German chemist , pharmacist and professor at the University of Rostock .

Life

Gustav Mähl was the son of the pharmacist and owner of the Rostock Ratsapotheke Jacob (Christoph) Mähl (1753–1822) and his wife Regina Katharina, nee. Broke. He grew up among numerous siblings.

After an apprenticeship as a pharmacist with his father, Mähl went to the University of Göttingen to study natural sciences and medicine . In 1810/11 he attended Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff's well-known pharmaceutical teaching institute in Erfurt and took further courses in chemistry and pharmacy at the University of Rostock with Ludolf Christian Treviranus . In 1811 he was promoted to Dr. phil. is doing his doctorate with the thesis De gas azotico sulphurato and was then initially a private lecturer. In May 1812 he was appointed associate professor of chemistry and pharmacy (ducal). His professorship was the first independent professorship for chemistry, the subject had previously been assigned to botany. 1817 he received the full professor of chemistry and pharmacy (ducal). His lectures included toxicology , analytical chemistry , experimental chemistry , and pharmacy .

Mähl carried out his lessons partly in the rooms of his father's pharmacy, the first chemical laboratory at the university could only be built by his successor Helmuth von Blücher . He had received extensive support from the Chancellor of the University of Carl Friedrich von Both and from the Medical Faculty through Carl Strempel . Strempel had recognized the necessity of the natural sciences for medicine and clinical teaching and found the corresponding training of medical students in Rostock to be inadequate. Due to illnesses, Mähl was unable to contribute to this in the form of additional lectures.

In the academic self-administration, Mähl was dean of the philosophical faculty in 1820/1821 and 1829/1830 and rector of the university in 1828/1829. In addition, from 1815 he was ao. Assessor of the medical faculty and from 1830 ao. Member of the Grand Ducal Medical Commission. He was a member of the Pharmacists' Association and the Mecklenburg Patriotic Association.

Gustav Mähl was married to Julie, b. Josephi, daughter of the Rostock professor of medicine Wilhelm Josephi (1763–1845).

Fonts (selection)

Is there a sulfur-containing nitrogen gas? In: Journal of Pharmacy for Doctors and Pharmacists. Volumes 21-22. Crusius, 1812.
Means against the spread of the cattle disease. 1813.
Chemical investigation of the titanium iron sand from Warnemünde, and remarks about corrosive mercury sublimate and about chlorine. 1828. ( BSB digital )
About the effects of phosphorus and sulfur on each other. 1829.

literature

Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6155 .
Paul Falkenberg : The professors of the University of Rostock from 1600 to 1900. Manuscript, Rostock around 1900.
Friedrich Brüssow: Gustav Peter Samuel Mähl. In: Freimuethiges Abendblatt. [Patriotic Necrology 1833]. Volume 15. Schwerin, 1833, Col. 991-992.

Web links

Literature about Gustav Mähl in the state bibliography MV
Works by Gustav Mähl in the state bibliography MV
Works by Gustav Mähl in the German Digital Library
Entry on Gustav Peter Samuel Mähl in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Entry on Gustav Peter Samuel Mähl in the CERL Thesaurus
Gustav Peter Samuel Mähl in the German biography

Individual evidence

↑ The census list of 1819 (Rostock) lists him as “Pet. Sam. Gust. Mähl, Student “ ; he himself signed according to the illustration in the Rostock professor catalog, however, as G [ustav] Mähl .

↑ The father's year of birth follows his entry (as a widower!) In the 1819 census list (Rostock).

↑ Rostock. Lectures at the university there during the summer semester 1829 - In the philosophical faculty:
Mr. Dr. Gustav Mähl, Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy, and former Rector of the University, will present toxicology and analytical chemistry.
[…] During the winter semester 1829/30 - In the philosophical faculty:
Mr. Dr. Gustav Mähl, Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy, d. Z. Dean of the Philosophical Faculty, will give lectures on experimental chemistry and pharmacy. In: Intelligence Journal of the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung. CA Schwetschke and Son, Halle 1829, Sp. 355 and Sp. 651. ( archive.org )

^ Gisela Boeck: The history of chemistry at the University of Rostock. In: Traditio et Innovatio - research magazine of the University of Rostock. Volume 15. Issue 2, 2010, ( ISSN 1432-1513 )

personal data
SURNAME	Mähl, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mähl, Gustav Peter Samuel (full name); Maehl, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist and pharmacist at the University of Rostock
DATE OF BIRTH	November 24, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rostock
DATE OF DEATH	October 20, 1833
Place of death	Rostock

[1] The census list of 1819 (Rostock) lists him as “Pet. Sam. Gust. Mähl, Student “ ; he himself signed according to the illustration in the Rostock professor catalog, however, as G [ustav] Mähl .

[2] The father's year of birth follows his entry (as a widower!) In the 1819 census list (Rostock).

[ALZ-3] Rostock. Lectures at the university there during the summer semester 1829 - In the philosophical faculty:
Mr. Dr. Gustav Mähl, Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy, and former Rector of the University, will present toxicology and analytical chemistry.
[…] During the winter semester 1829/30 - In the philosophical faculty:
Mr. Dr. Gustav Mähl, Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy, d. Z. Dean of the Philosophical Faculty, will give lectures on experimental chemistry and pharmacy. In: Intelligence Journal of the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung. CA Schwetschke and Son, Halle 1829, Sp. 355 and Sp. 651. ( archive.org )

[TeI-4] Gisela Boeck: The history of chemistry at the University of Rostock. In: Traditio et Innovatio - research magazine of the University of Rostock. Volume 15. Issue 2, 2010, ( ISSN 1432-1513 )