Joseph Anton Carl
Joseph Anton Carl (born August 3, 1725 in Edenhof , today the city of Penzberg , † March 22, 1799 in Ingolstadt ) was a German scientist and physician.
After a kind of basic course in philosophy, natural science and theology at Weihenstephan Monastery ( Freising ), Carl moved to the University of Ingolstadt , where he studied medicine. In 1749 he successfully completed this course with a dissertation .
Following this, Carl went on his cavalier tour to France; with longer stays in Strasbourg and Paris . In the summer of 1753 he returned to Bavaria and in the following year accepted a position at the University of Ingolstadt.
There he taught chemistry and pharmacology, and later also physics. From his occupation with the medical garden of the university later resulted in his lectures in botany.
In 1759, Carl became one of the first members of the Elector Maximilian III. Joseph founded the Kurbayerische Akademie in 1759 . In 1763 he was admitted to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .
Fonts (selection)
- Botanical-Medicinal Garden, in which the herbs are divided into nutritious, healing and poisonous . Attenkhover, Ingolstadt 1770 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
literature
- Reinhard Heydenreuter : Foundations make geniuses. Joseph Anton Carl (1725–1799), the first chemist in Bavaria, and the Carl'sche Scholarship Foundation from 1668 . In: Konrad Ackermann , Hermann Rumschöttel (Ed.): Journal for Bavarian State History . tape 68 , issue 2. CH Beck, 2005, ISSN 0044-2364 , p. 679–690 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library ).
- Klemens Alois Baader : The learned Baiern: or lexicon of all writers who produced or nourished Bavaria in the eighteenth century. Volume 1: AK . Seidel, Nuremberg 1804 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Member entry of Joseph Anton Carl at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 14, 2016.
- ↑ Member entry of Joseph Anton Carl at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 15, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carl, Joseph Anton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carl, Josef Anton; Carl, Anton Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German natural scientist and physician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1725 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edenhof (Penzberg) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1799 |
| Place of death | Ingolstadt |