Goebel, Traugot Friedemann

Karl Christian Traugot Friedemann Goebel was born on February 21, 1794 in the German town of Niderrosla . He studied at the University of Jena ; received a Ph.D. After graduating from university, Goebel was an apothecary at a university pharmacy, and also supervised a pharmaceutical school in Jena. In 1825–28 he was an extraordinary professor of pharmacy at the University of Jena.

In 1828 he was invited to lecture at the University of Dorpat as a specialist in the field of pharmaceutical sciences. In Dorpat, Goebel was called Ferdinand Ivanovich. He was a full professor, head of the department of chemistry and pharmacy at the University of Dorpat. He was one of the initiators of the creation of the first pharmaceutical institute in Russia at the University of Dorpat.

On December 13, 1833, Professor of Theoretical Experimental Chemistry and Pharmaceutics Karl Christian Goebel was elected Corresponding Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.

In 1834, Goebel led an expedition to study the southern Russian steppes, in which Karl Karlovich Klaus participated as a botanist, in whom Goebel aroused interest in the chemistry of medicinal substances. The expedition determined or specified a number of altitudes: the relative height of Lake Elton relative to the Volga and Ural rivers, a number of points in relation to the Caspian Sea , leveled between the Volga and the Don and in the space between the Caspian and Black Seas; the chemical composition of the water of eleven lakes of the Caspian steppe and four lakes of the Crimea was determined. For his work “Review of a Journey to the Steppes of Southern Russia in 1834” (ZhMNP, 1835. - Part 6. - No. 6. - P. 516–546) Goebel was awarded a half Demidov Prize .

Goebel in 1837 isolated alkaloid harmalin from the seeds of a burial ground ( Peganum harmala ). He also developed a method of obtaining nitrocellulose for the preparation of pyroxylin (1846), the experiments of which were carried out in St. Petersburg in 1847 in his presence. He also owns the creation of methods for obtaining some inks, making waterproof paper and inks.

He died on May 26 ( June 7 ) of 1851 in Dorpat ^[5] .

Heinrich Struve , Karl Schmidt and others were among his students.

His son Adolf Goebel is a geologist, mineralogist, member of the Khorasan expedition (1858) under the direction of N. V. Khanykov . In 1868-1870 he led an expedition to explore the coast of the White Sea, the Kola Peninsula and the island of Bear. He was the keeper of the academic collection of XIX century meteorites of the Mineralogical Museum of the Academy of Sciences .

In 1872, the plant genus Goebelia Bunge ex Boiss was named after Traugot Goebel .

• Biography on IS ARAN.
• Goebel, Karl Christian Traugott Friedemann // Taxonomic literature. T. 1 [Authors AG]. 1976. Pages 962-963. (eng.)