Johann Tobias Lowitz

Johann Tobias Lowitz ( Russian Товий Егорович Ловиц ; born April 25, 1757 in Göttingen ; † December 7, 1804 in Saint Petersburg ) was a German-Russian chemist and pharmacist. He was the son of the astronomer and geographer Georg Moritz Lowitz .

Life

In 1767 Lowitz went to St. Petersburg with his father in 1767. He accompanied him on an expedition to the area of the Caspian Sea , during which his father died. As an orphan , he attended the Petersburg Academy High School from 1774 to 1776. Then he worked in a St. Petersburg court pharmacy . Lowitz completed his apprenticeship in 1779 and studied pharmacy and chemistry from 1780 to 1783 in his native Göttingen. In 1784 he returned to Petersburg, where he again entered the court pharmacy. In 1787 he was appointed imperial court pharmacist and took over the chair of chemistry at the academy , which had been misunderstood by the late Mikhail Lomonosov .

plant

In 1793 Lowitz became a full professor of chemistry at the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. He was a supporter of the phlogiston theory . In 1790 he was the first to describe the so-called Lowitz halo . In 1791 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1792 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

literature

Claus Priesner : Lowitz, Tobias. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , pp. 259-261 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Wikisource: Tobias Lowitz - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

^ The 1790 St Petersburg Display
↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 156.

personal data
SURNAME	Lowitz, Johann Tobias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ловиц, Товий Егорович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Russian chemist and pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 25, 1757
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goettingen
DATE OF DEATH	December 7, 1804
Place of death	St. Petersburg

[1] The 1790 St Petersburg Display

[2] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 156.