Jeremias Friedrich Gülich
Born1733
Cannstatt, Germany[1]
DiedSeptember 1808 (aged 70)
OccupationDyer
SpouseChristina Hübner[1]
ChildrenHeinrich Gottlieb[1]
Parent
  • Georg Marx Gülich[1] (father)
Title page of Jeremias' "Complete Dyeing and Bleaching Book"

Jeremias Friedrich Gülich was a dyer in the neighbourhood of Stuttgart; he published the Complete Dyeing and Bleaching Book, an elaborate six-volume work on the technical details of dying.[2] He made contributions in improving the body of scientific knowledge on colour.[3] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe praised Jeremias' contribution to optics[4] heavily in his book Theory of Colours.[5] Although Jeremias and Goethe never conversed personally, Jeremias was very pleased to be praised by a figure so well known.[6] Jeremias also helped to set industry standards on dying, most notably of sheep wool.[3] After writing his books in Sindelfingen between the years 1776 and 1778, he ran a military orphanage in Ludwigsburg, where the boys spun cotton and the girls knitted and spun cotton and flax. In 1785, Jeremias opened his own cotton mill.[1] By the end of his life he had become the sole supplier of clothing to the military and also opened a saltpeter and gunpowder factory.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Aus Schönbuch und Gäu. Beilage des Böblinger Boten" 1954
  2. ↑ Goethe's Theory of Colours: Relation to the Technical Operations of the Dyer
  3. 1 2 Wikisource Färben
  4. ↑ The Visual Nature of Color, by Patricia Sloane, 1989, OCLC 19064957
  5. ↑ Goethe's Theory of Colours, Historical Section on Jeremias
  6. ↑ In einer geheimnisvollen Welt 2012
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