Johann_Friedrich_August_Göttling
Johann Friedrich August Göttling
German chemist (1753-1809)
Johann Friedrich August Göttling (5 June 1753 – 1 September 1809) was a notable German chemist.
Gottling developed and sold chemical assay kits and studied processes for extracting sugar from beets[1] to supplement his meagre university salary. He studied the chemistry of sulphur, arsenic, phosphorus, and mercury.[1] He wrote texts on analytical chemistry and studied oxidation of organic compounds by nitric acid. He was one of the first scientists in Germany to take a stand against the phlogiston hypothesis and be in favor of the new chemistry of Lavoisier.[1]