Johann Friedrich August Göttling

Johann Friedrich August Göttling (5 June 1753 – 1 September 1809) was a notable German chemist.

Gottling developed and sold chemical assay kits and studied processes for extracting sugar from beets[1] to supplement his meagre university salary.

[1] He wrote texts on analytical chemistry and studied oxidation of organic compounds by nitric acid.

In 1789, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe arranged for him to be an associate professor of chemistry and technology at the University of Jena.

[3] For a period of time, Göttling served as Goethe's primary source for chemical knowledge.