Johann Gottfried Schmeisser
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
- Contributions to a closer knowledge of the current state of science in France, collected during his stay in Paris , Verlag B.-G. Hoffmann, 1797, digitized .
- Syllabus of lectures on mineralogy , self-published, London, 1794, (review: Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, year 1798, Volume 1, Numero 37, pp. 291-292, ( online )).
- A System of Mineralogy , formed chiefly on the plan of Cronstedt , London, 1794, digitized .
- Lament, dedicated to Prince Maximilian Julius Leopold von Braunschweig , Harnisch, Waldenburg, 1785, ( online , SLUB Dresden).
- Trial of mixed poems and essays , 1785, ( online , Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen).
literature
chronologically
- Michael Bergeest: Education between Commerz and Emancipation: Adult Education in the Hamburg Region of the 18th and 19th Centuries , Waxmann Verlag, Münster / New York, 1995, p. 326 .
- Johann Gottfried Schmeisser . In: Adolf Meyer : Naturforschung und Naturlehre im alten Hamburg: Souvenir sheets in honor of the 90th meeting of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors in Hamburg (September 1928), State and University Library Hamburg (ed.), Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors , 1928, S. [81] -66ff., ( Online , SUB Hamburg).
- Otto Beneke: Schmeißer, Johann Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 633.
- Piter Poel : Pictures from the past, based on communications from largely unprinted family papers , Part 1, Rauhes Haus Agency, Hamburg, 1884.
- 3493. Schmeißer (Johann Gottfried) . In: Hans Schröder : Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present , Vol. 6, Hamburg 1873, ( online ).
- Schmeisser, Johann Gottfried . In: Johann Christian Poggendorff : Biographical-literary concise dictionary for the history of the exact sciences , 2nd volume, Verlag Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig, 1863, p. 811 .
- 69. Johann Gottfried Schmeisser . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 15. Jg., 1837, first part, Verlag Bern. Friedr. Voigt, Weimar 1839, p. 184 ff .
- Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz , The Free Cities , a geographical-statistical-historical pocket book for businessmen and travelers, August Campe, Hamburg, 1833, p. 73.
- 501. Schmeisser (Johann Gottfried) . In: Adolph Carl Peter Callisen : Medicinisches Writer Lexicon of the now living doctors, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all educated peoples , 17th volume, Copenhagen, 1833, p. 186
- 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
- 1026. Schmeisser (Johann Gottfried) . In: Detlev Lorenz Lübker, Hans Schröder: Lexicon of the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1796 to 1828 , Altona, 1828, p. 850, p. 850–852 .
- Carl Gottlieb Küttner: Journey through Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and a part of Italy in the years 1797, 98, 99 , Volume 1, Georg Joachim Göschen, Leipzig, 1801, p. 56 .
- Schmeisser (Johann Gottfried) . In: started by Georg Christoph Hamberger , continued by Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland , or Lexicon of the now living German writers , Volume 7, Meyersche Buchhandlung, Lemgo, 1798, pp. 184 ff .
- Curtis P. Schuh (1959-2007): Annotated Bio-Bibliography of Mineralogy and Crystallography 1469-1919 , The Mineralogical Record, ( online )
Remarks
- ↑ August Eberhard Brande (1746–1834), born in Hanover, naturalized in England in 1784, was Queen Charlotte's court pharmacist from 1783 to 1801.
- ^ Piter Poel , p. 87.
- ↑ Dr. habil. Reinhard Crusius, see 1793–1795.
- ^ Website of the Société Philomathique
- ^ Probably 1815 after the death of his wife Louise Janette.
- ↑ Hamburg Address Book for the year 1824, p. 332, ( online )
- ↑ Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz , p. 73
- ↑ 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 digitized .
- ^ 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 | |
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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 |