Gottfried Christoph Beireis

Gottfried Christoph Beireis
Gottfried Christoph Beireis
Born	(1730-03-02)2 March 1730 Free imperial city of Mühlhausen, Holy Roman Empire
Died	18 September 1809(1809-09-18) (aged 79) Helmstedt, Kingdom of Westphalia
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Helmstedt
Known for	Production of cinnabar red dye
Scientific career
Fields	Physicist, chemist, and physician
Institutions	University of Helmstedt
Doctoral advisor	Lorenz Heister
Other academic advisors	Georg Erhardt Hamberger
Doctoral students	Christian Heinrich Bünger

Gottfried Christoph Beireis (2 March 1730 – 18 September 1809) was a German chemist and doctor. He was also a collector of curiosities who rescued some of Jacques de Vaucanson's automata.^[1]

Biography[]

Beireis was born in Mühlhausen. He taught anatomy, medicine, surgery, chemistry, botany, natural history, pharmacy, mineralogy, metallurgy, agriculture, forestry, music, painting, and numismatics.^{[citation needed]}

As a student, he discovered a way to convert ammonium sulfide to cinnabar and made a fortune selling the latter as a red dye.^{[citation needed]}

Beireis was a student of Georg Erhardt Hamberger's in Jena in 1753. Beireis became a professor in 1759 without having obtained his MD degree; the degree was awarded subsequently for work done at Helmstadt under Lorenz Heister between 1756 and 1759.^{[citation needed]}

He died in Helmstedt.^{[citation needed]}

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