Friedrich August Göttling

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Johann Friedrich August Göttling (born June 5, 1753 in Derenburg , † September 1, 1809 in Jena ) was a German philosopher and chemist .

Göttling was born the son of a pastor in Derenburg near Halberstadt , attended the cathedral school in Halberstadt from 1761 and began an apprenticeship as a pharmacist with the naturalist Johann Christian Wiegleb . At the age of 19 he became an assistant in the Weimar court pharmacy , which was headed by the Weimar medical officer, court medic, botanist and chemist Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Bucholz , Goethe's advisor on all scientific questions.

From 1785, Göttling studied natural sciences in Göttingen with the help of a scholarship from Duke Carl August and traveled to the Netherlands and England. In 1789 Goethe appointed him extraordinary professor for philosophy with a teaching position for chemistry at the University of Jena . In the same year he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . With the help of Goethe, Göttling consistently advocated academic chemistry teaching and thus freed chemistry from its previous role as “servant of pharmaceuticals and medicine”. For the first time he gave lectures on experimental chemistry and technology and, as the first professor in a chair for chemistry, established the outstanding role of German chemistry and Jena’s reputation as a leading chemistry institute.

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  1. ^ List of pupils at the cathedral school in Halberstadt, Halberstadt city archive

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SURNAME Göttling, Friedrich August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Göttling, Johann Friedrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Derenburg
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1809
Place of death Jena