Johann Friedrich Gmelin

Johann Friedrich Gmelin ( born August 8, 1748 in Tübingen, † November 1, 1804 in Göttingen) was a German physician and scientist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " JFGmel. ".

Life

The eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin and father of the chemist Leopold Gmelin studied in Tübingen medicine and graduated in 1769 as a doctor of medicine. A study trip took him through Holland, England and Austria. For a short time he worked as an associate professor of medicine in Tübingen before an appointment as Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Medicine followed in 1773 to Göttingen. In 1778 he moved up to a full professor of medicine and in addition was appointed professor of chemistry, botany and mineralogy. In 1783 Gmelin set up in his house in the Hospital Road one of the first "public" laboratories in which Friedrich Stromeyer in 1805 first introduced a chemistry lab for students.

Gmelin worked mainly as the author of textbooks on chemistry, pharmacy, mineralogy and botany. From 1788, he published an enlarged edition of Linnaeus Systema Naturae, which he described as the 13th edition. Significantly from forest view is his memoir of Wurmtrocknis (1787 ), a careful presentation of the "big Wurmtrocknis ". This calamity caused by a bark beetle gradation had transformed the entire Upper Harz in the first half of the 18th century in a nakedness. Gmelin was a member of, founded by Johann Matthäus Bechstein " Societät for forestry and hunting client". Among his students were Carl Friedrich Kiel Meyer, Friedrich Stromeyer and Wilhelm August Lampadius.

Johann Friedrich Gmelin is on the Albani Cemetery ( Cheltenhampark ) in Göttingen buried.

Ehrentaxon

The Shrubby growing wormwood, Artemisia gmelinii was named in honor of Johann Friedrich Gmelin.

Writings (selection )

  • General history of poisons, 2 volumes, 1776/77 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • General history of plant toxins. At Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, Nuremberg 1777 (online ) - ( A reprint of the second edition of 1803 was published by Dr. Martin Sändig oHG, Walluf at Wiesbaden 1974, ISBN 3-500-26320-8 )
  • General history of the mineral poisons. Nuremberg: . Raspe, 1777 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • The Knight Carl Linnaeus complete natural system of the mineral kingdom, after the twelfth Latin edition. In a freyen and increased translation by JF Gmelin. 4 parts, Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, Nuremberg 1777-1779, online.
  • Johann Friedrich Gmelin ... Introduction to Chemistry for use on universities. - Nuremberg. Raspe, 1780 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf Introduction to the Pharmacie. - Nuremberg. Raspe, 1781 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • Volume 1: Regnum Animale: Part 1: Mammalia. P [x. ] 1-232, 1788, online.
  • Part 2: Aves. S. 233-1032. , Online
  • Part 7: index. Pp. 3911-4120. , Online
  • Part 1: Regnum Vegetable. Pp. 1-884, 1791, Online
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