Johann Friedrich August Göttling
| Johann Friedrich August Gottling | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 5, 1753 Derenburg, Prussia |
| Died | September 1, 1809 (aged 56) Jena, Saxe-Weimar |
| Residence | Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Chemist |
| Doctoral advisor | Johann Christian Wiegleb |
| Doctoral students | Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner |
Johann Friedrich August Göttling (1753-1809) was a notable German chemist. He received his Apothecary degree in 1775 at Langensalza under Johann Christian Wiegleb. Gottling developed and sold chemical assay kits and studied processes for extracting sugar from beets, to supplement his meagre university salary. He studied the chemistry of sulphur, arsenic, phosphorus, and mercury. He wrote texts on analytical chemistry and studied oxidation of organic compounds by nitric acid. He was one of first in Germany to take a stand against the phlogiston hypothesis and for the new chemistry of Lavoisier.
He was notably the teacher of Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner.
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From 1785, Göttling studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen. In 1789, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe appointed him extraordinary professor of philosophy with teaching duties in chemistry at the University of Jena.
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This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (October 2009) |
- K. Hufbauer, The Formation of the German Chemical Community (1720-1795), University of California Press, 1982, pp. 207-208.
- Pharmazie, 1962, 17, pp. 624-634.
- Neue Deutsche Biographie, Duncker & Humblot: 1953-1990, 6, pp. 580-581.
- Duncker & Humblot: Gottling, Johann Friedrich August. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 6. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, p. 580 f. (German)
- Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1962, 2, p. 787.
- Dictionaire des Sciences Medicales Biographie Medicale, C. L. F. Panoucke, 1820-1822, 4, pp. 473-474.
