Friedrich Adolph August Struve

Friedrich Adolph August Struve (9 May 1781, Neustadt in Sachsen – 29 September 1840, Berlin) was a German pharmacist and balneologist.

He studied medicine at the Universities of Leipzig and Halle, then continued his education at Johann Peter Frank's clinic in Vienna.

Two years later, he acquired an apothecary shop in Dresden through marriage, and subsequently gave up his medical practice, choosing to devote his time to technical and scientific work.

[1][2] After taking spa treatments in Karlsbad and Marienbad, he came up with the idea of artificially replicating mineral waters by chemical means.

[3] Afterwards, similar institutions were built in Leipzig, Berlin, Brighton (the "Royal German Spaa"), Königsberg, Warsaw, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kyiv and other cities.