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Alexander Nicolaus Scherer (30 December 1771, St. Petersburg – 16 October 1824, St. Petersburg) was a German chemist and pharmacologist. In 1794 he graduated from the University of Jena, later serving as a lecturer at the gymnasium in Weimar. In 1800 he was appointed a professor of physics at the University of Halle, shortly afterwards working as a manager at a stoneware factory in Potsdam. In 1803 he relocated to the University of Dorpat as a professor of chemistry, and during the following year returned to St. Petersburg as a professor of chemistry and pharmacy at the medico-surgical academy. In 1815 he became a full member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.〔(Biography ) @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie〕 Scherer was instrumental in the creation of the "Pharmaceutical Society of St. Petersburg", an institution in which he served as its first president.〔(Bibliotheca Chemica ) Royal College of Science and Technology (Glasgow, Scotland). Andersonian Library, James Young, John Ferguson〕〔(Google Books ) Pharmaceutical Journal: A Weekly Record of Pharmacy and Allied Science〕 == Written works == He was an editor of the journals ''Allgemeines Journal der Chemie'' (from 1798 to 1803) and ''Allgemeine nordische Annalen der Chemie'' (from 1817 to 1822).〔(Repertorium Veterrimarum Societatum Litterariarum ) Journal Title Abbreviations: Poggendorff: Q - S〕 He was the author of ''Kurze Darstellung der chemischen Untersuchungen der Gasarten'' (Weimar, 1799), translated into English in 1800 as " A short introduction to the knowledge of gaseous bodies".〔(WorldCat Title ) A short introduction to the knowledge of gaseous bodies〕 Other principal works by Scherer include: * ''Versuch einer populären Chemie'', 1795 - book on popular chemistry. * ''Nachträge zu den Grundzügen der neuern chemischen Theorie'', 1796 - Supplements to the basic features of modern chemical theory. * ''Grundriss der Chemie für akademische Vorlesungen'', 1800 - Outline of chemistry for academic lectures. * Codex medicamentarius Europaeus, 1819-1824. * ''Versuch einer systematischen Uebersicht der Heilquellen des russischen Reichs'', 1820 - A systematic survey on the mineral springs of the Russian Empire. * Literatura pharmacopoearum, 1822.〔(World Cat Identities ) (publications)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Nicolaus Scherer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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