Scheele’s work. As far as we know, Bergman and Scheele would only meet twice
again, but exchanged letters until Bergman’s death. They also sent samples to each
other and Bergman sent Scheele books and dissertations.
The pharmacy was much simpler than his previous working places. It reportedly
consisted of a single room where Scheele worked with an apprentice. The names of
two of these apprentices are known, Carl Berg and Christian Hasselberg (1746–
1823). The latter had worked at the Raven pharmacy in Stockholm 1769–1771, i.e.
at the same time as Scheele, and the two men thus already knew each other.
Hasselberg left Köping in 1783 and became apothecary in Mariefred in 1787. The
Köping pharmacy had a small back yard with a shed. The shed was divided into two
compartments by a simple wall made from boards. Scheele used one part as his
laboratory; the other part was used for farming tools. Scheele rented a room at the
inn, and Mrs Pohl cooked for him. The original pharmacy building is long since
gone (Fig. 19.1).
Fig. 19.1 The street corner in Köping where the pharmacy was originally located. The current
view shows no traces of the eighteenth century. Photo Anders Lennartson, June 2014
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19 Scheele in Köping