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German naturalist, chemist, and biologist (1748–1804)
"Johann Gmelin" redirects here. For the German naturalist, botanist and geographer, see Johann Georg Gmelin.
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Johann Friedrich GmelinBorn(1748-08-08)8 August 1748
Tübingen, Holy Roman EmpireDied1 November 1804(1804-11-01) (aged 56)
Göttingen, Electorate of Brunswick-LüneburgCitizenshipGermanAlma materUniversity of TübingenKnown forTextbooks on chemistry, pharmaceutical science, mineralogy, and botanySpouseRosine Louise Gmelin (1755–1828, née Schott)FatherPhilipp Friedrich GmelinRelativesLeopold Gmelin (son)
Scientific careerFieldsNaturalist, botanist, and entomologistInstitutionsUniversity of Göttingen
University of TübingenThesis Latin: Irritabilitatem vegetabilium, in singulis plantarum partibus exploratam ulterioribusque experimentis confirmatam
Doctoral advisorPhilipp Friedrich Gmelin
Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger
Doctoral studentsGeorg Friedrich Hildebrandt
Friedrich Stromeyer
Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer
Wilhelm August Lampadius
Vasily Severgin
Author abbrev. (botany)J.F.Gmel.
Author abbrev. (zoology)Gmelin
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Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.
Education[edit]
Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp Friedrich Gmelin in 1748 in Tübingen. He studied medicine under his father[1] at University of Tübingen and graduated with a Master's degree in 1768, with a thesis entitled: Irritabilitatem vegetabilium, in singulis plantarum partibus exploratam ulterioribusque experimentis confirmatam
, defended under the presidency of Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger,[2] whom he thanks with the words Patrono et praeceptore in aeternum pie devenerando, pro summis in medicina obtinendis honoribus
.
Career[edit]
In 1769, Gmelin became an adjunct professor of medicine at University of Tübingen. In 1773, he became professor of philosophy and adjunct professor of medicine at University of Göttingen. He was promoted to full professor of medicine and professor of chemistry, botany, and mineralogy in 1778. He died in 1804 in Göttingen and is buried there in the Albani cemetery with his wife Rosine Louise Gmelin (1755–1828, née Schott).
[citation needed]
Johann Friedrich Gmelin when young became a respected colleague of Carl Linnaeus, probably when Linnaeus was visiting the Netherlands or northern Germany around 1770, and collected plants "Persia" on his behalf.[3][4] Later in life he published several textbooks in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceutical science, mineralogy, and botany. He also edited and published the posthumous 13th edition of Systema Naturae by Carl Linnaeus from 1788 to 1793. This contained descriptions and scientific names of many new species, including birds that had earlier been catalogued without a scientific name by John Latham in his A General Synopsis of Birds[5]. Gmelin's publication is cited as the authority for over 290 bird species[6]and also a number of butterfly species.[7]
Legacy[edit]
Among his students were Georg Friedrich Hildebrandt, Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer, Friedrich Stromeyer, and Wilhelm August Lampadius. He was the father of Leopold Gmelin.
He described the redfin pickerel in 1789. In the scientific field of herpetology, he described many new species of amphibians and reptiles.[8] In the field of malacology, he described and named many species of gastropods.
The plant genus Gmelina was named after J.F. Gmelin (or possibly J.G. Gmelin, or both) by Linnaeus.
The standard author abbreviation J.F.Gmel. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[9]
The abbreviation "Gmel." is also found.[10]
Tomb in the Albani cemetery in Göttingen
Publications[edit]
Gmelin, Johann Friedrich; Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger (1768). Irritabilitatem vegetabilium, in singulis plantarum partibus exploratam ulterioribusque experimentis confirmatam. Thesis Tübingen. OCLC 10717434.
Allgemeine Geschichte der Gifte
, 2 Vol., 1776/77 Digital edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf.
Allgemeine Geschichte der Pflanzengifte
, 1777
Allgemeine Geschichte der mineralischen Gifte
. Nürnberg: Raspe, 1777. Digital edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf.
Johann Friedrich Gmelins ... Einleitung in die Chemie zum Gebrauch auf Universitäten
. Nürnberg: Raspe, 1780. Digital edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf.
Einleitung in die Pharmacie
. Nürnberg: Raspe, 1781. Digital edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf.
Beyträge zur Geschichte des teutschen Bergbaus
, 1783
Über die neuere Entdeckungen in der Lehre von der Luft, und deren Anwendung auf Arzneikunst, in Briefen an einen Arzt, von J. F. Gmelin
, 1784
Grundsätze der technischen Chemie
, 1786
Caroli a Linné, equitis aurati de stella polari, … Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima tertia, aucta, reformata
, Lipsiae [Leipzig], Georg Emanuel Beer, 1788–1793
Grundriß der Pharmazie
, 1792
Apparatus Medicaminum tam simplicium quam praeparatorum et compositorum in Praxeos Adiumentum consideratus
, Ps. 2, T. 1 – Ps. 2, T. 2., 1795–1796. Digital edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf.
Geschichte der Chemie
, 1799
Allgemeine Geschichte der thierischen und mineralischen Gifte
, 1806
See also[edit]
Category:Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
References[edit]
↑
Mainz, Vera V.; Gregory S. Girolami (1998). "Genealogy Database Entry: Gmelin, Johann Friedrich" (PDF). School of Chemical Sciences Web Genealogy. University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Retrieved 19 April 2019.
↑
"'Irritabilitas vegetabilium in singulis plantarum partibus explorata, ulterioribusque experimentis confirmatam publice proponet' – Viewer | MDZ". www.digitale-sammlungen.de.
↑ Joseph Kastner, A world of naturalists, 1977, Alfred A Knopf, New York; page 35.
↑ Wilfrid Blunt, 1971 The Compleat Naturalist. A life of Linnaeus, Collins, London; page 190 letter of Linnaeus 20 December 1771 to John Ellis: "The younger Gmelin is still in Persia" "younger distinguishes him from his father Philipp Friedrich Gmelin, who had recently died
↑
Latham, John; Dwight, Jonathan; Tucker, Marcia Brady; Library of Congress, former owner DSI (1781). A general synopsis of birds. Smithsonian Libraries. London : Printed for Benj. White.
↑
"IOC World Bird List – Version 15.2". www.worldbirdnames.org. Retrieved 24 April 2026.
↑
Vane-Wright, R. I. (1975). "The butterflies named by J. F. Gmelin (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera)". Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology. 32 (2): 17–64.
↑ The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
↑
International Plant Names Index. J.F.Gmel.
↑ See for instance:
Audubon, John James (1831) – Ornithological Biography : Volume 1, p. 232. Online available at wikisource.
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"Author Details for Johann Friedrich Gmelin" (HTML). International Plant Names Index. International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI).
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