Johann Carl Gehler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German mineralogist
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Place of Birth: Görlitz, Saxony, Germany
About Johann Carl Gehler
- Johann Carl Gehler (17 May 1732 – 6 May 1796) was a German physician, mineralogist and anatomist. Born 17 May 1732 in Görlitz, Gehler studied medicine from 1751 to 1758 at the University of Leipzig, where he was a pupil of physician and botanist Christian Gottlieb Ludwig.
- While a student at Leipzig, he furthered his interest in natural sciences, publishing the mineralogical treatise, De characteribus fossilium externis (1757), as a result.
- Following graduation, he continued his education by studying mineralogy in Freiberg and obstetrics in Strasbourg as a student of Johann Jakob Fried (1689–1769).After his return to Leipzig, he served as a lecturer in mineralogy, and in the meantime, maintained a successful medical practice, of which, he specialized in midwifery.
- In 1763 he was named an associate professor of botany at the university.
- Later on at Leipzig, he successively held professorships in physiology (1773–1781), anatomy and surgery (1781–1784), pathology (1784–1789) and therapy (1789–1796).
- From 1789 to 1796, he served as dean of the medical faculty.
- He was a member of the Ă–konomischen Gesellschaft.
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