Christoph Heinrich PFAFF
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| Type | Value | Date | Place | Sources |
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| name | Christoph Heinrich PFAFF |
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| occupation | physician, chemist and physicist. |
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| Type | Date | Place | Sources |
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| death | 24. April 1852 | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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| birth | 2. March 1773 | Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">He graduated as a physician at the <a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Karlsschule Stuttgart" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsschule_Stuttgart">Karlsschule in Stuttgart</a> in 1793, where he studied under <a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Kielmeyer">Carl Friedrich Kielmeyer</a> and became goodfriends with <a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Georges Cuvier" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Cuvier">Georges Cuvier</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Heinrich_Pfaff#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> He then went to <a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="University of Göttingen" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_G%C3%B6ttingen">Göttingen</a>, where he published the results of his galvanic inquiries in <em>Ueber thierische Electricität und Reizbarkeit</em> (“On animal electricity and susceptibility to stimulus”). In 1797 he became an associate professor at the <a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="University of Kiel" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Kiel">University of Kiel</a>, and in 1802 was made professor of chemistry, physics and medicine therewith rank at the same time as a member of the medical faculty.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Heinrich_Pfaff#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> He then directed his attention particularly to <a class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Pharmaceutical chemistry" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_chemistry">pharmaceutical chemistry</a>, and was thus led to the composition of his most important work, <em>System der Materia Medica nach chemischen Principien</em> (“System of <a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Materia medica" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materia_medica">materia medica</a> using chemical principles,” 1808-24). Among other writings of his are:</p> <ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url('data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A'); color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><em>Ueber und gegen den thierichen Magnetismus</em> (“<a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Animal magnetism" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_magnetism">Animal magnetism</a> exposed and opposed,” 1807).</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><em>Handbuch der analytischen Chemie</em> (“Handbook of <a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Analytical chemistry" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_chemistry">analytical chemistry</a>,” 1824-25).</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><em>Der Electromagnetismus</em> (1824).</li> <li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><em>Parallele der chemischen Theorie und der voltaischen Contacttheorie der galvanischen Kette</em> (“Parallels between chemical theory and the voltaic contact theory of galvanic chains,” 1845).</li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">His brothers <a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Johann Friedrich Pfaff" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Pfaff">Johann Friedrich Pfaff</a> and <a style="text-decoration-line: none; color: #0b0080; background: none;" title="Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wilhelm_Andreas_Pfaff">Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff</a> were noted mathematicians.</p>
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| 1 | Runkel Web Site, Christoph Heinrich Pfaff
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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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