Johann Gotthard Zigra
Johann Gotthard Zigra , Latvian Cigra (born November 16, 1773 in Lübeck , † January 8, 1843 in Mitau ) was a German pharmacist and archivist.
Life
Johann Herman Zigra was the son of the Lübeck businessman Johann Zigra and his wife Christina Elisabeth born. Cordua. The gardener Johann Hermann Zigra was his younger brother.
Zigra completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Copenhagen , where he also studied botany, physics and chemistry. He then returned to Lübeck for a while and then sailed to Riga with his brother in 1795 . He first worked as a pharmacist in Walk and in 1798 became the pharmacy owner of the Löwenapotheke in Mitau, which he leased from 1821 to serve as an archivist for the government of the Courland Governorate . Zigra also wrote casual poems.
Memberships
- Kurland Society for Literature and Art
- Pharmaceutical Society, St. Petersburg
- Medical Society at the University of Vilnius
literature
- Johann Friedrich von Recke , Theodor Beise , Karl Eduard Napiersky : General Lexicon of Writers and Scholars of the Provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland , Volume 4, JF Steffenhagen and Son , 1832, p. 590 (digitized version)
- Adolf Callisen : Medicinal writer's lexicon of the now living physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists and naturalists of all educated peoples. Volume 21, 1838, pp. 490-491. (Digitized version)
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Johann Gotthard Zigra. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Zigra, Johann Gotthard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cigra, Johann Gotthard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmacist and archivist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1773 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1843 |
Place of death | Mitau |