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Hieronymus von Ludolf (born December 11, 1708 in Erfurt ; † November 8, 1764 ibid) was a German doctor and chemist.

Life

He came from a patrician family in Erfurt and was the son of Hieronymus Ludolf (1679–1728), professor of mathematics, botany and chemistry in Erfurt and personal physician to the Archbishop of Mainz.

Ludolf initially studied law and philology in Erfurt, but also dealt with mechanics, fireworks, artillery and economics and attended his father's lectures in mathematics and chemistry. He traveled to Copenhagen, where, on the instructions of his father, he was supposed to solicit support for further studies from wealthy relatives, but was unsuccessful, and was in Wetzlar as his uncle's secretary. In 1731 he resumed his law studies in Jena, came under the influence of Pietism and was a private tutor in Berleburg , where he also worked as a watchmaker's assistant due to lack of money. From 1737 he studied medicine in Jena, where Hermann Friedrich Teichmeyerwas one of his teachers and he also worked with the alchemists RJF Schmid and Baron von Blaka, and received his doctorate in medicine in Erfurt in 1739 ( De acidi vitrioli praestantia ). From 1740 he was associate professor for mathematics and physics in the philosophy faculty and from 1745 full professor for mathematics in the philosophy faculty and for chemistry in the medical faculty in Erfurt and from 1756 also taught anatomy and botany. From 1745 to 1753 he was a city ​​physician and from 1753 to 1764, like his father, personal physician to the Archbishop of Mainz and was also on leave in Mainz during this time. In 1764 he returned to Erfurt and died soon after.

In Erfurt around 1743 he built a large laboratory with a kind of boarding school for chemistry students and produced drugs.

He was the author of several chemistry books.

In 1752 he was raised to the imperial nobility by the Archbishop of Mainz.

Fonts

  • The prevailing chemistry in medicine. 8 volumes, Erfurt 1746 to 1750.
  • Complete and thorough introduction to chemistry. 1752.
  • Programma Inaugurale De Elixirio Proprietatis Paracelsi. Erfurt 1745 (Latin, digitized ).
  • De solutione mercurii per alcali. 1747 (Latin).
  • De olei animalis Dippelii faciliori praeparatione etc. 1750 (Latin).

literature

  • Entry in Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia. KG Saur, Munich 2006.
  • Karl Hufbauer The formation of the German chemical community 1720–1795 . University of California Press, 1982, p. 179 (biographical entry).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family Ludolf, NDB, pdf ( Memento from September 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Ludolf, Hieronymus von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1708
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1764
Place of death Erfurt