, a German apothecary of considerable learning and excellent character,
, a German apothecary of considerable learning and excellent character,
was born at Hanover in 1724; studied first at Berlin, and
afterwards passed a few years in the principal German and
Dutch universities. He resided likewise some time in
England, and formed an acquaintance, in the course of his
various travels, with the most eminent physicians and chemists of the age. On his return to Hanover, he succeeded
to his father’s business, who was an apothecary; and published from time to time, in the Hanoverian Magazine,
many learned and useful dissertations on medical and chemical subjects, and formed a very fine museum of natural
history; of which, at his death, he left a catalogue raisonne. In 1765, by desire of his Britannic majesty, he
undertook an examination of the different kinds of earth
in the electorate of Hanover, and published the result in
1769, under the title of “Dissertation on the earths which
compose the soil, &c. and their uses in agriculture.
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died in