Johann Friedrich Gmelin
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 Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748–1804)
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| Born | August 8, 1748 Tübingen, Germany |
| Died | November 1, 1804 (aged 56) Göttingen, Germany |
| Residence | Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Naturalist, botanist and entomologist |
| Institutions | University of Göttingen University of Tübingen |
| Alma mater | University of Tübingen |
| Doctoral advisor | Philipp Friedrich Gmelin |
| Doctoral students | Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt Friedrich Stromeyer Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer Wilhelm August Lampadius |
| Known for | Textbooks |
| Author abbreviation (botany) | J.F.Gmel. |
Johann Friedrich Gmelin (August 8, 1748 – November 1, 1804) was a German naturalist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist and malacologist.
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[edit] Education
Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen. He studied medicine under his father[1] at University of Tübingen and graduated with an MD in 1769, with a thesis entitled: Irritabilitatem vegetabilium, in singulis plantarum partibus exploratam ulterioribusque experimentis confirmatam. Gmelin's thesis advisor, his father Philipp, died a few months before the thesis was completed.
[edit] Career
In 1769, Gmelin became an adjunct professor of medicine at University of Tübingen. In 1773 he became professor of philosophy and adjunct professor of medicine at University of Göttingen. He was promoted to full professor of medicine and professor of chemistry, botany and mineralogy in 1778. He died in 1804 in Göttingen.
Johann Friedrich Gmelin published several textbooks in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceutical science, mineralogy and botany. He also published the 13th edition of Systema Naturae by Carolus Linnaeus in 1788.
[edit] Legacy
The Artemisia plant Gmelin's Wormwood or Artemisia gmelinii is named after him.
Among his students were Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt, Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer, Friedrich Stromeyer and Wilhelm August Lampadius. He was the father of Leopold Gmelin.
He discovered the Redfin Pickerel in 1789.
In the scientific field of herpetology he described many new species of amphibians and reptiles.[2]
[edit] Publications
- Gmelin, Johann Friedrich; Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger (1768). Irritabilitatem vegetabilium, in singulis plantarum partibus exploraam ulterioribusque experimentis confirmatam. Thesis Tübingen. OCLC 10717434.
- Allgemeine Geschichte der Gifte, Two Volumes, 1776/1777
- Allgemeine Geschichte der Pflanzengifte, 1777
- Allgemeine Geschichte der mineralischen Gifte, 1777
- Einleitung in die Chemie, 1780
- Beyträge zur Geschichte des teutschen Bergbaus, 1783
- Ueber die neuere Entdeckungen in der Lehre von der Luft, und deren Anwendung auf Arzneikunst, 1784
- Grundsätze der technischen Chemie, 1786
- Grundriß der Pharmazie, 1792
- Geschichte der Chemie, 1799
- Allgemeine Geschichte der thierischen und mineralischen Gifte, 1806
[edit] References
- ^ Mainz, Vera V.; Gregory S. Girolami (1998). "Genealogy Database Entry: Gmelin, Johann Friedrich". School of Chemical Sciences Web Genealogy. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/Info/gmelinjf.pdf. Retrieved 2009-01-01.
- ^ The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do.
- Vane-Wright, R. I., 1975. The butterflies named by J. F. Gmelin (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera).Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History),Entomology, 32: 17-64.
[edit] External links
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- Gmelin's chemical genealogy
- Gmelin's math genealogy
- Johann Friedrich Gmelin in the German National Library catalogue (German)
- Gmelin biography
- International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). "Plant Name Search Results" (HTML). International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id={{{id}}}.
- books by Johann Friedrich Gmelin at Internet Archive
