ANNALS 



07 



PHILOSOPHY. 



MARCH, 1814 



Article I. 



Biographical Account nf Mr. Tobias Lowitz*, Memler of the. Im- 

 perial Academy of Sciences if Petersburg. 



iViR. Tobias Lowitz, member of the Imperial Academy of Peters- 

 burg for the department of chemistry, counsellor of state, and 

 knight of the 2d class of the order of St. Anne, died of an apoplec* 

 tic fit, on the 25th of November, 1804, in the 48th year of his age. 

 He was born in 1757) at Gottingen, where his father was a professoi* 

 in the university. His father, being an astronomer of some note, 

 wa« invited by the Petersburg academy to observe the transit of 

 Venus in 1769, and young Lowitz accompanied him to Petersburg 

 in 1767« He went with hi? father to the southern provinces of the, 

 Russian empire, and was the inelancholy witness of the tragical 

 death of tiie author of his being, who was taken and impaled by th« 

 rebels at Pugatcheff. 



He himself fortunately escaped, and returned to Petersburg, ia 

 177*) with the wreck of the astronomical expedition. Here he was 

 placed, as an eleve of the crown, in the gynmasium of the academy, 

 where he received the first part of liis academical education. His 

 tutor, M. Guldenstedt, having the sagacity to discover the kind of 

 study to which he had the greatest inclination, placed him as aa, 

 apprentice in the great Imperial Apothecary's Hall; and, when he 

 had fitiished his apprenticeship, sent him to Gottingen to prosecute 

 liis studies, and if (wssible to remove that melaiiciioly which had 

 been produced by the dreadful death of his father almost before l^s 

 «ycs. 



* TranflateJ from the Mcmoiret d<t CJcadtmit Imperiult d*$ Sfitnctt d« St. ?♦• 

 teri>bur<)i, louii- 1. i'ulilbilieU ut i'ctLrtburgli in ISIU. 



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