Johann Peter Joseph Monheim

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Johann Peter Joseph Monheim; Painting by Carl Schmid

Johann Peter Joseph Monheim (born May 23, 1786 in Aachen ; † December 1, 1855 there ) was a German pharmacist , chemist and politician .

family

Johann Peter Joseph Monheim was born as the eldest son of the pharmacist Andreas Monheim (1750–1804) and Anna Maria Gertrud Monheim, b. Peuschgens (1751–1814) born. The father immigrated from Cologne in 1775 and initially became a partner and from 1788 sole owner of the pharmacy in Haus Monheim (which has housed the Aachen Couven Museum since 1958 ). From 1797 to 1798 he was the last mayor of Aachen according to the imperial city constitution .

Johann Peter Joseph had two siblings, Catherina (1788–1863) and Heinrich (* 1791), who died as an infant.

On November 4, 1809, he married the then nineteen year old Lucia Dorothea Emonts (born January 29, 1790 in Xanten ; † December 18, 1848 in Aachen). Between 1811 and 1830, eleven children were born into this marriage, five sons and six daughters, two of whom died young. The eldest son Viktor later took over the father's pharmacy, the youngest son Leonard introduced chocolate production and thus laid the foundation for Trumpf chocolate .

education and profession

After finishing school at the Imperial City Marianum , Monheim began an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in the Paradies pharmacy in Cologne in 1804 . From 1806 to 1808 he studied at the Pharmaceutical School in Paris , where he worked as an assistant to Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin . In 1809 he took over his father's pharmacy, which he ran until 1853. In 1811 he passed his pharmacy exam in Paris. The University of Göttingen earned him a doctorate in 1815. phil.

In Aachen, after taking over his father's pharmacy in Antoniusstraße , he set up an additional chemical factory, which was later operated by his son Viktor Monheim and then by his son Johannes Theodor Monheim and which caught fire on June 29, 1883. In addition, after acquiring Gut Diepenbenden as a family residence in 1830, he set up the former chemical factory there, in which salmiak and Berlin blue were previously produced for the cloth industry, for his own research.

Through the chemical analysis of the Aachen springs, he has made a name for himself as a balneologist and profiled the critical-scientific methodology in toxicology and in spring water analysis . His most important work includes the analysis of the mineral waters in Aachen , Burtscheid , Spa , Malmedy and Heilstein. Several scientific societies named him their corresponding member, such as the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt and the Society of Friends of Natural Sciences in Berlin . Monheim presided over the 25th meeting of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors in Aachen in 1847.

Seriously ill since 1848, Johann Peter Joseph Monheim died on December 1, 1855 deeply mourned in Aachen. "The public offices were looking for him, not he them, and wherever he stood, he devoted all his energy to fulfilling the duties he had taken on," said an obituary. In 1868 the street in front of the Aachen Kurhaus was renamed Monheimsallee in his honor.

Political career

From 1826 to 1843 Monheim was a member of the Rhenish Provincial Parliament . Here he stood out particularly for his advocacy of the liberation of the Archbishop of Cologne, Clemens August Droste zu Vischering, from house arrest at the 6th Rhenish provincial assembly in 1841. In addition, on March 28, 1823, he set up the so-called “Vincenzspital” for terminally ill and old-age patients in the former Annunciaten Monastery in Aachen . From 1832 to 1850 Monheim was a member of the Aachen city council and campaigned for the expansion of the school system. Among other things, he was instrumental in founding the “Higher Citizens School” in Aachen.

portrait

Johann Peter Josef Monheim had himself portrayed by Carl Schmid around 1826 .

social commitment

In connection with industrialization , an industrial proletariat arose in Aachen and with it major social problems. Monheim was a member of the Charity Commission from 1817 to 1822 and from 1823 a member of the successor organization, the Poor Administration Commission. In 1823 Monheim initiated the establishment of the Vinzenzspital, a hospital for the terminally ill among the poor population of Aachen, and in 1830 played a major role in the establishment of the Aachen Marianneninstitut , a maternity ward for poor women who had recently given birth.

Membership in clubs

Monheim was active in numerous scientific associations in Germany and abroad, including:

Honors

Fonts

  • Gerhard Reumont , JPJ Monheim: Analysis of the eaux sulfureuses d'Aix-la-Chapelle . Aachen 1810
  • JPJ Monheim: Analysis of the eaux thermales de Borcette, suivie de l'examen du gaz azote sulfuré dégagé des source sulfureuses tant d'Aix-la-Chapelle que de Borcette . Aachen - Paris - Frankfurt, 1811 digitized
  • JPJ Monheim: Chemical treatise on the solid iron mass found in Aachen . Aachen 1816
  • Georg von Sartorius, JPJ Monheim: Medical-chemical investigation of two zinc poisonings . DuMont-Schauberg, Cologne 1826
  • Georg von Sartorius, JPJ Monheim: Medical-chemical investigation of an arsenic poisoning perpetrated on three people . DuMont-Schauberg, Cologne 1826
  • JPJ Monheim: The healing springs of Aachen, Burtscheid, Spaa, Malmedy and Heilstein in their historical, geognostic, physical, chemical and medical relationships . Jacob Anton Mayer , Aachen 1829 ( Google ), digitized

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Couven Museum Aachen. Retrieved on March 16, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ Johann Peter Joseph Monheim. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Monheim, Johann Peter Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monheim, Johann Peter Josef; Monheim, JPJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pharmacists, chemists and politicians
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1855
Place of death Aachen