Hubert Franz Hoefer
Hubert Franz Hoefer (* 1728 in Cologne ; † March 19, 1795 in Vienna ) was a German pharmacist , chemist and director of the grand ducal Tuscan court pharmacy in Florence .
Life
Hubert Franz Hoefer was the son of the physician Johann Philipp Hoefer and was baptized on October 4, 1728 in the church of St. Kolumba in Cologne.
From December 23, 1752 he was enrolled at the Medical Faculty of the University of Strasbourg (matriculation no. 1454).
In 1765 he came to Florence in the entourage of Grand Duke Peter Leopold von Habsburg-Lothringen and from this time worked as a pharmacist and chemist and later also as director of the grand ducal Tuscan court pharmacy.
In 1766 he published the Tabula affinitatum , a table of chemical affinities between substances, for the pharmacy of the Grand Duke of Florence . This large table (oil on canvas, 1540 × 1300 mm) should help the drug manufacturer identify the compounds that are most likely to be combined with one another. The substances are identified by traditional alchemical symbols and the symbolic language used in the 17th and early 18th centuries. However, the Florentine table does not contain the symbol of air, as it was compiled at a time when air was not yet fully known as a chemically active substance. The tabula affinitatum is now in the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence.
In 1777 he succeeded in detecting boric acid in the geothermally active region near Monterotondo Marittimo in Tuscany .
He was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Siena and the Botanical Society in Florence.
On December 18, 1789, Hubert Franz Hoefer was registered under the matriculation number. 902 with the academic surname Athenaeus III. accepted as a member of the Leopoldina .
Fonts
- Memoria sopra iI fale fedativo naturale della Toscana e de Borace, che con quello si compone etc. Firenze 1778 ( digitized version )
- Memoire sur le sel sedatif naturel de la toscane et du borax. Florence 1779 ( digitized version )
- with Franz Benedikt Hermann : Mr. Hubert Franz Höfers, director of the grand ducal court pharmacy in Florence, and member of the Academy of Sciences in Siena, and of the botanical societies in Florence, news of the natural sedative salts discovered in Tuscany, and of the borax that is made from them becomes; Translated from Italian by BF Hermann. Wappler, Vienna 1781 ( digitized version )
literature
- Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 237 (archive.org)
- Piccardi Giovanni: Uberto Francesco Hoefer e la Tabula affinitatum. Nuncius, 19, 2, 2004, pp. 545-568
Web links
- Entry by Hubert Franz Hoefer at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on March 15, 2018.
- Works by and about Hubert Franz Hoefer in the German Digital Library
- Hubert Franz Hoefer in the German biography
- Dizionario Biografico: HOEFER, Hubert Franz
- Museo Galileo: Tabula affinitatum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gustav C. Knod: The old matriculations of the University of Strasbourg 1621 to 1793. 2. Volume. The registers of the medical and legal faculty. Strasbourg 1897, p. 71 ( digitized version )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoefer, Hubert Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Athenaeus III. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmacist and chemist, director of the grand ducal Tuscan court pharmacy in Florence |
| DATE OF BIRTH | baptized October 4, 1728 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1795 |
| Place of death | Vienna |