Johann Friedrich Hermann Süersen

Johann Friedrich Hermann Süersen (born July 9, 1771 in Kiel ; † June 24, 1845 there ) was a German pharmacist and lecturer.

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Johann Friedrich Hermann Süersen was a son of Johann Friedrich Süersen (Sürsen) (baptized on March 22, 1715 (not 1725) in Winsen (Luhe) ; † May 17, 1774 in Kiel) and his wife Hedwig Magdalena Henriette, née Hargen. The father ran the new pharmacy in Kiel and from 1842 the court pharmacy. The paternal grandfather named Johann Friedrich Sürsen (Sührsen, Sürssen) also worked as a pharmacist.

In 1790, Süersen enrolled as the first documented student to study pharmacy at the medical faculty of Kiel University. In 1791 he moved to Jena, where he studied chemistry with Friedrich August Göttling . In 1792 he went to the Collegium medico-chirurgicum in Berlin and learned from Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt . He then worked as a chemist at the Economics and Industry College in Berlin.

From 1796, Süersen worked in his father's pharmacy, which he took over himself two years later. In 1803 he got the real privilege for the pharmacy. From 1811 to 1815 he lived in Lübeck , where he had leased the Ratsapotheke. After the French government established freedom of establishment for pharmacists, he went bankrupt. Then he went back to Kiel and sold the Ratsapotheke in 1827. In the following years he lived as a privateer.

For Christian VII's coronation in 1840, Süersen wrote De systematibus oryctognosticis eorumque nexu cum progressibus chemia quaestio historie . The University of Copenhagen awarded him a doctorate for this thesis. phil. hc In the following year, Süersen was the first and only pharmacist of the 19th century to take a position as a lecturer in mineralogy and pharmacy at the University of Kiel. Christoph Heinrich Pfaff in particular advocated this . As part of the teaching activity, he had no opportunity to help shape the study relationships or to improve the pharmaceutical exercises.

Süersen's first marriage was to Johanna Friederike Henriette Hugart, with whom he had a daughter. In his second marriage he married the divorced Sophie Aldenrath.

Works

Süersen published on applied chemistry and in 1810 a book on mineral springs in Bramstedt . In the book, he carefully presented the chemical investigation method. He wrote a fairly extensive biography and an overview, which, starting in 1681, showed in which cases spring water had a healing effect.

literature

• Fritz Treichel: Lüersen, Johann Friedrich Hermann . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 6 - 1982. ISBN 3-529-02646-8 , pages 276-277.