Carl Wilhelm Juch

Carl Wilhelm Juch (30 November 1774 – 9 March 1821) was a German physician, pharmacist, and herbalist.

He served as a professor of medicine and chemistry at the University of Altdorf and at the Augsburg Polytechnic.

His professors at Jena included Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Christian Gottfried Gruner, and Lorenz Suckow and he became especially interested in chemistry.

He then went to the University of Berlin where he studied under Christian Ludwig Mursinna, Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt and Johann Gottlieb Walter.

He became a professor of medicine and chemistry at the University of Altdorf in 1801, succeeding Johann Christian Conrad Ackermann.

Plate from Handbuch der pharmaceutischen Botanik (1804)