during the whole of the three year long stay at my pharmacy, Scheele was occupied by
chemical investigations; acquired several chemical books, saying while reading the copies
through: That could be. That was not true. This I will investigate. [3]
During his stay in Malmö, Scheele appears to have made his first and last visit to
his family in Stralsund since he moved to Gothenburg [4].
8.1 Anders Jahan Retzius
In Malmö, Scheele befriended Anders Jahan Retzius (Fig. 8.2), born on October 3,
1742, the son of a provincial physician. Born the same year as Scheele, Retzius had
made a much faster career than Scheele. He took his apothecary exam in 1761, the
youngest apothecary ever in Sweden. When Scheele met him, he had also received
a degree in chemistry [5] and worked as a lecturer in chemistry at Lund University,
the first at that university to pay any serious attention to chemistry. As will be seen,
he lived in Stockholm 1768–1772, where he was an auscultator at the Swedish
Board of Mines. He also lectured on chemistry at Collegium Illustre and worked as
an assistant to Abraham Bäck, president of Collegium medicum. After returning to
Lund in 1772, he mainly worked in botany. He died on October 6, 1821.
Fig. 8.1 The Split Eagle pharmacy in Malmö, where Scheele made his first documented
discoveries, is gone since centuries. A cinema (the grey building at the centre of the picture) was
erected at the site in 1934. Photo Anders Lennartson, July 2016
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chemical investigations; acquired several chemical books, saying while reading the copies
through: That could be. That was not true. This I will investigate. [3]
During his stay in Malmö, Scheele appears to have made his first and last visit to
his family in Stralsund since he moved to Gothenburg [4].
8.1 Anders Jahan Retzius
In Malmö, Scheele befriended Anders Jahan Retzius (Fig. 8.2), born on October 3,
1742, the son of a provincial physician. Born the same year as Scheele, Retzius had
made a much faster career than Scheele. He took his apothecary exam in 1761, the
youngest apothecary ever in Sweden. When Scheele met him, he had also received
a degree in chemistry [5] and worked as a lecturer in chemistry at Lund University,
the first at that university to pay any serious attention to chemistry. As will be seen,
he lived in Stockholm 1768–1772, where he was an auscultator at the Swedish
Board of Mines. He also lectured on chemistry at Collegium Illustre and worked as
an assistant to Abraham Bäck, president of Collegium medicum. After returning to
Lund in 1772, he mainly worked in botany. He died on October 6, 1821.
Fig. 8.1 The Split Eagle pharmacy in Malmö, where Scheele made his first documented
discoveries, is gone since centuries. A cinema (the grey building at the centre of the picture) was
erected at the site in 1934. Photo Anders Lennartson, July 2016
100
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