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Dec 30, 1771 Saint Petersburg Died on 16 Oct 1824 (aged 52)
German chemist
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About Alexander Nicolaus Scherer
- Alexander Nicolaus Scherer (Russian: ????????? ???????? ?????, 30 December 1771, St.
- Petersburg – 16 October 1824, St.
- Petersburg) was a Russian-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.Scherer was instrumental in the creation of the "Pharmaceutical Society of St.
- Petersburg", an institution in which he served as its first president.
