Alexander Nicolaus Scherer
Alexander Nicolaus Scherer (30 December 1771, St. Petersburg – 16 October 1824, St. Petersburg) was a German chemist and pharmacologist.
In 1794 he graduated from the University of Jena, later serving as a lecturer at the gymnasium in Weimar. In 1800 he was appointed a professor of physics at the University of Halle, shortly afterwards working as a manager at a stoneware factory in Potsdam. In 1803 he relocated to the University of Dorpat as a professor of chemistry, and during the following year returned to St. Petersburg as a professor of chemistry and pharmacy at the medico-surgical academy. In 1815 he became a full member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.[1]
Scherer was instrumental in the creation of the "Pharmaceutical Society of St. Petersburg", an institution in which he served as its first president.[2][3]
Written works
He was an editor of the journals Allgemeines Journal der Chemie (from 1798 to 1803) and Allgemeine nordische Annalen der Chemie (from 1817 to 1822).[4] He was the author of Kurze Darstellung der chemischen Untersuchungen der Gasarten (Weimar, 1799), translated into English in 1800 as A short introduction to the knowledge of gaseous bodies.[5] Other principal works by Scherer include:
- Versuch einer populären Chemie, 1795 - book on popular chemistry.
- Nachträge zu den Grundzügen der neuern chemischen Theorie, 1796 - Supplements to the basic features of modern chemical theory.
- Grundriss der Chemie für akademische Vorlesungen, 1800 - Outline of chemistry for academic lectures.
- Codex medicamentarius Europaeus, 1819-1824.
- Versuch einer systematischen Uebersicht der Heilquellen des russischen Reichs, 1820 - A systematic survey on the mineral springs of the Russian Empire.
- Literatura pharmacopoearum, 1822.[6]
References
- ↑ Biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- ↑ Bibliotheca Chemica Royal College of Science and Technology (Glasgow, Scotland). Andersonian Library, James Young, John Ferguson
- ↑ Google Books Pharmaceutical Journal: A Weekly Record of Pharmacy and Allied Science
- ↑ Repertorium Veterrimarum Societatum Litterariarum Journal Title Abbreviations: Poggendorff: Q - S
- ↑ WorldCat Title A short introduction to the knowledge of gaseous bodies
- ↑ World Cat Identities (publications)