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Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.
- Textbooks on chemistry, pharmaceutical science, mineralogy, and botany
Philip’s son, Johann Friedrich (1748–1804) became an associate professor of medicine at Tübingen in 1772, but moved to Göttingen University three years later. In 1780 he won promotion to ...
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May 12, 2023 · Johann Friedrich was appointed professor of medicine in Tübingen in 1772, and in 1775 accepted the chair of medicine and chemistry at Göttingen. In 1788 he published the 13th edition of Carolus Linnaeus’ Systema Naturae with many additions and alterations (he was also into ants, good man).
Under the great naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin (who died in 1804), theoretical and experimental chemistry had been taught at Göttingen through the use of texts, something that was an...
- Malte C. Ebach
- mcebach@unsw.edu.au
- 2016
Gmelin was a son of the physician, botanist and chemist Johann Friedrich Gmelin and his wife Rosine Schott. Due to his family he early came in contact with medicine and the natural sciences, in 1804 he attended the chemical lectures of his father.
- 2 August 1788, Göttingen
- University of Heidelberg
GMELIN, Johann Friedrich. (1748 – 1804) ( Born: Tübingen, Germany, 8 August 1748; Died: Göttingen, Germany, 1 November 1804) German mineralogist & naturalist.
Grundriß der Pharmazie, 1792. Geschichte der Chemie, 1799. Allgemeine Geschichte der thierischen und mineralischen Gifte, 1806. Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted.
