Philipp Friedrich Gmelin

Philipp Friedrich Gmelin ( born August 19, 1721 in Tübingen, † May 9, 1768 ) was a German physician, botanist and chemist. He was a brother of the famous naturalist Johann Georg Gmelin.

Gmelin referred the age of 15 years, the university in his native city, to devote himself to the study of the natural sciences and medicine. After completion of the same, he made a major tour of the Netherlands and England.

1744 he returned to Tübingen and was here for Stadtphysikus. 1755, he was appointed in place of his deceased brother professor of botany and chemistry and has held this post until his death.

Except for a small botanical work ( otia botanica, 1760 ), which he as a guide put based his lectures on botany, and a reports on the Reutlinger Health Fountain ( 1761), he has published only a number of academic opportunity writings which, objects from different areas of the medicine treating, do not rise above the level of the ordinary.

Philipp Friedrich Gmelin shares the fate of many so-called prodigies in their unusual precocity to have great expectations about former importance of the individual, which remain unfulfilled.

The chemist, zoologist, botanist and mineralogist Johann Friedrich Gmelin is his eldest son.

Source

• August Hirsch: Gmelin, Philipp Friedrich. In: General German Biography (ADB ). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p 273

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• Born in 1721
• Died in 1768
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