Johann Gottfried Schmeisser

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Johann Gottfried Schmeisser (born June 24, 1767 in St. Andreasberg , † February 5, 1837 in Hamburg ) was a German pharmacist, chemist, scientist.

Life

He learned the profession of pharmacist from the pharmacist Johann Ludwig Gösche († 1817) in Bockenem . He then worked in Hamburg and Braunschweig. Then he went to London with a recommendation to the well-known English naturalist Joseph Banks . Through him he made the acquaintance of the renowned botanist James Edward Smith and the doctor John Hunter . On the recommendation of Banks and the Duke of Leeds , he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . He also gave lectures on chemistry and mineralogy in English. Schmeisser was a member of the Linnean Society of London and the Medical Society. For a while he worked in August Eberhard Brande's pharmacy. Here he worked as a provisional. In total, Johann Gottfried Schmeisser stayed in England for seven years.

On Caspar Voght's second trip to England, Scotland and Ireland from 1793 to 1795 he was temporarily his companion. In Edinburgh he became a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . After his return he lived on Caspar Voght's estate in Flottbek . Here he had a chemical laboratory built. In 1796 he accompanied the friend and partner Caspar Voghts Georg Heinrich Sieveking on his trip to Paris for negotiations. Here he became a member of the Société Philomathique de Paris, founded in 1788. With the support of Caspar Voght, Lucas Andreas Staudinger founded an agricultural educational institute in the immediate vicinity of his estate in 1797, which existed until 1812. Here Johann Gottfried Schmeisser gave lectures and lectures on chemistry in agriculture. He then accompanied the almost blind Johann Georg Büsch on his journey to the Harz Mountains, to Braunschweig, Göttingen and Hanover. In the following years he was offered further honors, such as that of an adjunct of the Schleswig-Holstein Medical College, founded in 1804. In Helmstedt he received the diploma of a Dr. med. He was a member of the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin .

In 1805 he became the owner of a pharmacy in Altona, which he sold again a few years later. After that he stayed in Copenhagen . After returning in 1823, he moved into an apartment in Hamburg. He practiced as a doctor and gave lectures. He had a collection of physical and chemical instruments possibly for use in his lectures.

family

Johann Gottfried Schmeisser was married to Louise Janette (1781–1815), a daughter of Peter Texier . Three children were born: Adolph (1802-?), Louise Josephine Janette and Ida Charlotte (1815-1868?).

Works

literature

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Remarks

  1. ↑ August Eberhard Brande (1746–1834), born in Hanover, naturalized in England in 1784, was Queen Charlotte's court pharmacist from 1783 to 1801.
  2. ^ Piter Poel , p. 87.
  3. ↑ Dr. habil. Reinhard Crusius, see 1793–1795.
  4. ^ Website of the Société Philomathique
  5. ^ Probably 1815 after the death of his wife Louise Janette.
  6. ↑ Hamburg Address Book for the year 1824, p. 332, ( online )
  7. ↑ Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz , p. 73http: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DHaRYAAAAcAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA73~ double-sided%3D~LT%3DS.%2073~PUR%3D
  8. ↑ Adolph Schmeisser, b. July 11, 1802 in Altona, studied medicine in Berlin, Copenhagen and Kiel, entered the Russian service as a medical officer in 1829 (source: Hans Schröder , Detlev Lorenz Lübker: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1796 to 1828, 1829 -1830 , 1st department AM, Verlag K. Aue, Altona, 1829, p. 755); Doctoral thesis digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D5LhEAAAAcAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA3~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  9. ^ Louise Josephine Janette (* February 20, 1804 in Altona; † November 29, 1884 in Altona) married to Heinrich Zeise (* December 26, 1793 in Kellinghusen, † September 18, 1863 in Altona). His first marriage was to Juliane Cordts. Theodor Zeise (1826–1890) comes from this marriage .

Web links

  • Reinhard Crusius: Chronological data on Caspar Voght, his model estate and the Jenisch Park and its surroundings until today , in publications Freunde des Jenischpark eV, see 1793–1795 ( PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Schmeisser, Johann Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmeisser, Johann Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist, chemist, naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Andreasberg / Harz
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1837
Place of death Hamburg