Some years later, in 1714, he became secretary of the department of medicine, and librarian of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which had opened in 1703.
[1] Following a complaint by the academic Andrey Nartov regarding the Academy’s expenses (to the tune of 109 rubles), Schumacher was suspended from office and placed under house arrest on 7 October 1742.
His daughter, Eleonora Dorothea, was married twice, first 1750 to Johann Casper Taubert and after hist death, to Petr Stupishin Archived 2017-08-03 at the Wayback Machine(1718–1782).
• Gabriel Braeuner, « Jean Daniel Schumacher », in Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, vol.
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