Din viaţa şi activitatea unui „spiţer” botoşănean: Johann Gorgias (1768-1841)
Some aspects from the life and activity of an apothecary from Botoşani: Johann Gorgias (1768-1841)

Summary/Abstract: This study started from a set of unusual letters belonging to Johann Gorghias, the apothecary, these were addressed to a debt collector Ionică Tăutu. The lines written by the apothecary from Botoşani reveal some of the author’s desires and contain certain expressions that betray something from his personality and, why not, specific issues of the age he lived in. Born in Brasov, in the first days of 1768, Johann Gorgias read Pharmacy in his hometown, who had been for a period of 5 years an apprentice in the pharmacy of Johann von Becher. He came to Moldova in 1792, and, after a short period spent in Iaşi, he moved to Botoşani where he opened a pharmacy that was named after him, remaining for more than half a century the only pharmacy in town. He got married to Rosalia, the daughter of the physician Johann Ziegler. As an apothecary of the community and the leader of local Austrians, Gorgias looked after the health of locals and the safety of Botoşani community in the time of plague and revolutions of 1821.

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