Johann Ambrosius Beurer

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Johann Ambrosius Beurer (born March 2, 1716 in Nuremberg ; † June 27, 1754 there ) was a German pharmacist and naturalist . He ran the hospital pharmacy in Nuremberg and owned an extensive natural history cabinet .

Life

Johann Ambrosius Beurer was the son of the Nuremberg hospital pharmacist Christoph Daniel Beurer and from 1731 completed a three-year apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Regensburg . During this time he received lessons in flower painting from Georg Dionysius Ehret . He then trained in his father's hospital pharmacy in Nuremberg and with Caspar Neumann in the court pharmacy in Berlin. In 1738 he went on an extensive educational trip to Hamburg, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and London as well as Paris, Strasbourg, Basel and Zurich.

From 1739 until the end of his life, Johann Ambrosius Beurer worked as a pharmacist at the hospital pharmacy in Nuremberg.

Beurer carried out extensive natural history research and set up a rich and well-known natural history cabinet. He owned a valuable library and a collection of engravings. The natural history cabinet was partly used by Georg Wolfgang Knorr as a template for his panels on the peculiarities of nature.

On June 4, 1750, Johann Ambrosius Beurer was registered under the registration number. 566 accepted as a member of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Apollonius II .

Beurer had been married to Johanna Dorothea Werneberg, the daughter of the Berlin pharmacist Friedrich Werneberg, since 1739. He was a cousin of the physician Christoph Jacob Trew .

literature

  • Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 514 ( digitized version )
  • Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon. Visual artists, artisans, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century . Volume 1, KG Saur, Munich 2007, p. 126
  • Marion Mücke, Thomas Schnalke : Briefnetz Leopoldina: The correspondence of the German Academy of Natural Scientists around 1750 . De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, pp. 610-611
  • 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. 220 (archive.org)

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SURNAME Beurer, Johann Ambrosius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beurer, Johannes Ambrosius; Apollonius II
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist, natural scientist and natural resource collector
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1716
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1754
Place of death Nuremberg