Johannes Baptist Müller

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Johannes Müller also Jean Baptist Müller , Jean Baptista Müller or Johannes Baptist Müller (born April 16, 1806 in Mainz , † June 18, 1894 in Berlin ) was a German pharmacologist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ JB Müll. "

Life

Origin and family

Johannes came from a family of wig makers and merchants. His parents were Christian Cyriak Müller (* 1775) and Catharina born. Krimmel (* 1785). He had two biological brothers, Anton (* 1804) and Joseph (* 1807). After the early death of her father, the mother moved to Paderborn and entered into a second marriage there in 1813.

He himself married Henriette von Raschkauw (1828–1911) with whom he lived in Berlin until the end of his life.

Career

Müller attended grammar school Theodorianum for five years until he graduated from high school in 1820 and then completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist for four years with court pharmacist Franz Anton Cramer (1776-1829) . Afterwards he enrolled at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . After further training positions at various pharmacists and an interim botanical study trip to Bern , from November 1829 studied three semesters of pharmacy in Berlin . After the state examination to become a first-class pharmacist, Müller went through a number of jobs, was the owner of various pharmacies and Waldeck's medical advisor, and finally settled in Berlin in 1848 as a pharmacy owner .

In June 1841 he was at the University of Jena to Dr. phil. PhD . A request from Müller for a habilitation in 1842 to the University of Giessen ultimately did not materialize. In Berlin he was also forbidden by the police to call himself a medical advisor. Nevertheless, after Johann Christian Poggendorff (1796-1877), he was one of the first to detect elevated blood sugar levels in diabetics .

Müller had been active as an (honorary) member and also as a senior functionary in numerous domestic and foreign scientific societies and pharmacists' associations. On October 15, 1847, he was elected a member (matriculation no. 1583) of the Leopoldina with the nickname Dieffenbach . In 1860 he became a foreign member of the Society for Nordic Archeology in Copenhagen and (or 1862) corresponding member of the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Provinces of Russia and an honorary member of the Natural Science Association of the Harz Mountains. He was also Honorary Director of the Pharmacists' Association of Northern Germany.

Works

Numerous publications by Johannes Müller, including translations from Dutch and French, are known.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Müller, Jean Baptiste (Baptista) (1806-1894) in the International Plant Names Index , accessed September 18, 2018
  2. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses , 16th year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1915, p. 623.
  3. ^ New Yearbook for Pharmacy, Volume 31, Speyer 1869, p. 160.
  4. ^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 273 (archive.org)
  5. ^ Meeting reports of the Society for History and Archeology of the Baltic Sea Provinces of Russia 1873, WF Häcker, Riga 1874 p. 83.
  6. ^ Archives of the Pharmacie , Hannover 1860, p. 326.
  7. ^ Announcements of the Nördlich der Elbe association for the dissemination of scientific knowledge, Volume 2, Kiel 1858, p. 57.
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Johannes Baptist
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Johannes; Müller, Jean Baptist; Müller, Jean Baptista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1894
Place of death Berlin