Johann Friedrich August Göttling (5 June 1753 – 1 September 1809) was a German chemist.
Gottling developed and sold chemical assay kits and studied processes for extracting sugar from beetsGöttling, Johann Friedrich August @ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie 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 the first scientists in Germany to take a stand against the phlogiston hypothesis and be in favor of the new chemistry of Lavoisier.
Biography He studied pharmacy at Langensalza under Johann Christian Wiegleb, and from 1775 worked at the Hofapotheke (court pharmacy) in Weimar.Chemische Probierkabinette Aus der Einführung zu "Chemische Probierkabinette" von Prof. Dr. Georg Schwedt From 1785, Göttling studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen. In 1789, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe arranged for him to be an associate professor of chemistry and technology at the University of Jena.Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory edited by Ursula Klein, E. C. Spary For a period of time, Göttling served as Goethe's primary source for chemical knowledge.Goethe Contra Newton: Polemics and the Project for a New Science of Color by Dennis L. Sepper
He was notably the teacher of Karl Wilhelm Gottlob Kastner.
Selected works Praktische Vortheile und Verbesserungen verschiedener pharmaceutisch-chemischer Operationen für Apotheker, 1783. Beytrag, zur Berichtigung der anti-phlogistischen Chemie auf Versuche gegründet, 1794. Chemische Bemerkungen über das phosphorsaure Quecksilber und Hrn. Hahnemanns schwarzen Quecksilberkalk, 1795.OCLC WorldCat (publications) Handbuch der theoretischen und praktischen Chemie, 1798–1800 (3 volumes). Elementarbuch der chemischen Experimentirkunst, 1808–09 (2 volumes). He was also an editor of the journal Taschenbuch für Scheidekünstler und Apotheker.WorldCat Search published works
References
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.
Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1962, 2, p. 787. Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales Biographie Medicale, C. L. F. Panckoucke, 1820–1822, 4, pp. 473–474.