Alexander Nicolaus Scherer


Alexander Nicolaus Scherer was a Russian-German chemist and pharmacologist.

Career

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 Imperial 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.

Written works

He was an editor of the journals Allgemeines Journal der Chemie and Allgemeine nordische Annalen der Chemie. He was the author of Kurze Darstellung der chemischen Untersuchungen der Gasarten, translated into English in 1800 as . 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. Руководство к преподаванию химии, St. Petersburg 1808.