Philipp_Friedrich_Gmelin

Philipp Friedrich Gmelin

Philipp Friedrich Gmelin

German professor of botany and chemistry (1721–1768)

Philipp Friedrich Gmelin (19 August 1721 – 9 May 1768) was a professor of botany and chemistry. He studied the chemistry of antimony and wrote texts on the pancreatic ducts, mineral waters, and botany.

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He was a brother of the famous traveler Johann Georg Gmelin. He obtained his Master's degree in 1742, at the University of Tübingen under Burchard Mauchart.[citation needed]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1758.[1]

He was the father of the naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin.

Works

  • Otia botanica (in Latin). Tübingen: Christoph Heinrich Berger. 1760.

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Library and Archive". Royal Society. Retrieved 2012-08-06.

References

  • J. Chem. Educ., 1954, 32, pp. 534–541.
  • Chem. Ber., 1939, 72, pp. 5A-33A.
  • Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1962, vol. 2, p. 776.
  • Michaud Biographie Universelle (2.), Delagrabe, 1843–1865, vol. 16, p. 646.
  • Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales Biographie Medicale, C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1820–1822, vol. 4, pp. 461–462.


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