Jacob Reinbold Spielmann

Jacob Reinbold Spielmann, engraving by Christophe Guérin , 1781

Jacob Reinbold Spielmann (born March 31, 1722 in Strasbourg ; † September 9, 1783 there ) was a French pharmacist , physician and chemist .

Life

The Spielmanns family can be traced back to Strasbourg in the 15th century. Johann Jakob Spielmann, the father of Jacob Reinbold, acquired the pharmacy "Zum (golden) Hirschen" ( Pharmacie du Cerf ) from Albrecht Weßner, his wife's grandfather, in 1657 . The pharmacy was in the same place as early as 1348, possibly even 1268. Today it is the oldest pharmacy in France. Jacob Reinbold was taught by his father in the local pharmacy. It is still located in Rue de Mercière in Strasbourg today .

Spielmann passed his pharmacist examination in Strasbourg as early as 1742. In the following years he ran his parents' pharmacy. In 1755 he became professor of medicine at the University of Strasbourg , in 1756 for poetry and in 1759 for medicine, chemistry and pharmacognosy . Later he still worked in his parents' pharmacy and even gave lectures there. In 1760 he was elected a member ( matriculation no. 631 ) of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Heraclides IV . In 1764 he became an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg . From 1772 he was a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .

During his studies in Strasbourg from April 1770 to August 1771, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe followed Spielmann's lectures at the University of Strasbourg and in the deer pharmacy during the winter semester. From Spielmann he also adopted the expression encheiresin naturae (literally translated: "Access of nature"). Spielmann meant that natural forces connect the components of a substance to a whole.

Works

Spielmann wrote important textbooks that were translated into many languages.

• Pharmacopoea generalis , Argentorati, Treuttel, 1783, 372 pages.
• Institutiones materiae medicae: praelectionibus academicis accomodatae , Argentorati, Bauer, 1774, 656 pages.
• Institutiones materiae medicae. , 1784
• Syllabus medicamentorum , 1777
• Institut de Chemie , 1770
• Instructions for the knowledge of medicinal products , 1785
• Chemical concepts and experiences , 1783
• Small practical, medical and chemical writings , 1786
• Institutiones chemiae praelectionibus adademicis adcommodatae , 1763 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

literature

• Friedrich August Flückiger :  Spielmann, Jacob Reinbold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 171-173.
• Christoph Friedrich:  Spielmann, Jacob Reinbold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 688 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Member entry of Jacob Reinbold Spielmann at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• landesmuseum.de, model of the deer pharmacy
• Image of the deer pharmacy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bad-bad.de, In the footsteps of Goethe in Alsace , accessed on February 26, 2008
2. ^ HG Schwieger and Gottfried Zöbl: The old pharmacy. Bandage factories Paul Hartmann, Heidenheim / Brenz 1954, p. 16 f.
3. ↑ ^{a b} W. Dörr, Goethe and pharmacist Spielmann. In: Süddeutsche Apotheker-Zeitung. , 89/1949, pp. 628-34.
4. ^ Spielmann, Jakob Reinhold . In: Werner Hartkopf: The Berlin Academy of Sciences. Its members and award winners 1700–1990. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-05-002153-5 , p. 343.
5. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 224 digitized
6. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter S. Académie des sciences, accessed on March 4, 2020 (French). 
7. ^ R. Heitz, Goethe and ophthalmology in Strasbourg (1770–1771) , Julius Hirschberg Society
8. ↑ Lecture for senior doctors on the occasion of the Thuringia Medical Week 2006 ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.