Christoph Heinrich PFAFF

Christoph Heinrich PFAFF

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Art Wert Datum Ort Quellenangaben
Name Christoph Heinrich PFAFF
Beruf physician, chemist and physicist.

Ereignisse

Art Datum Ort Quellenangaben
Geburt 2. März 1773 Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany nach diesem Ort suchen
Tod 24. April 1852 Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany nach diesem Ort suchen

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He graduated as a physician at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart in 1793, where he studied under Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer and became goodfriends with Georges Cuvier.[1] He then went to Göttingen, where he published the results of his galvanic inquiries in Ueber thierische Electricität und Reizbarkeit (“On animal electricity and susceptibility to stimulus”). In 1797 he became an associate professor at the University of Kiel, and in 1802 was made professor of chemistry, physics and medicine therewith rank at the same time as a member of the medical faculty.[2] He then directed his attention particularly to pharmaceutical chemistry, and was thus led to the composition of his most important work, System der Materia Medica nach chemischen Principien (“System of materia medica using chemical principles,” 1808-24). Among other writings of his are:

  • Ueber und gegen den thierichen Magnetismus (“Animal magnetism exposed and opposed,” 1807).
  • Handbuch der analytischen Chemie (“Handbook of analytical chemistry,” 1824-25).
  • Der Electromagnetismus (1824).
  • Parallele der chemischen Theorie und der voltaischen Contacttheorie der galvanischen Kette (“Parallels between chemical theory and the voltaic contact theory of galvanic chains,” 1845).

His brothers Johann Friedrich Pfaff and Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff were noted mathematicians.

Quellenangaben

1 Runkel Web Site, Christoph Heinrich Pfaff
Autor: Friedrich
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2 Biographical Summaries of Notable People, https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10182-2735733/christian-heinrich-pfaff-in-biographical-summaries-of-notable-people
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