Johann Friedrich August Göttling, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Johann Friedrich August Göttling

German chemist

Date of Birth: 05-Jun-1755

Place of Birth: Derenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Date of Death: 01-Sep-1809

Profession: pharmacist, chemist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Johann Friedrich August Göttling (5 June 1753 – 1 September 1809) was a notable German chemist. Gottling developed and sold chemical assay kits and studied processes for extracting sugar from beets 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.