Rolfinck, Werner

Rolfinck, Werner. Chimia in artisformam reiacta, sex libris comprehensa (Jena S amuel Krebs, 1661). 

Chemistry of a sort did come to the university at Jena. Both Brendel and his son (also called Zacharias, 1592-1638) taught how to prepare chemical medicines there, and they were followed in that sort of teaching by Werner Rolfinck (1599-1673), who acquired the more specific title of director of chemical exercises. But limiting instruction in chemistry to medicine was not really what Libavius had in mind. And while it is true that, as the historian of chemistry Maurice Crosland and others have argued, the real status of chemistry as an independent discipline within the university had to wait... 

Werner Rolfinck, Chimia in artisformam redacta, sex libris comprehensa. (Jena Samuel Krebs, 1661), 426-427. For Rolfinck s stance toward chrysopoeia, see William R. Newman and Lawrence Principe, Alchemy vs. Chemistry The Etymological Origins of a Historiographic Mistake, Early Science and Medicine 3(1998), 32—65. 

Werner (or Guerner) Rolfinck Rolfinck was born in 1599 in Hamburg, was educated in Wittenberg, Leiden, Oxford, Paris, and Padua, receiving his M.D. in 1625. In 1638 he established the chemical laboratory in Jena and, in 1641, be-... 

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