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Dorothea Juliana Wallich (also known as Dorothea Wallich or D. J. W.; n̩e Fischer[1] (1657 Weimar Р1725, Arnstadt), was a Thuringian alchemist and thus one of the few women known to have practiced alchemy. She wrote three alchemical books, which were published in 1705 and 1706. Karl Christoph Schmieder considered the possibility that she had merely published manuscripts by her father; however, he also deemed her authorship possible.[2][3]
In the second edition of Hermann Fictuld‘s Der Längst gewünschte und versprochene chymisch-philosophische Probier-Stein, auf welchem sowohl der wahrhafften hermetischen Adeptorum als der verführischen und betriegerischen Sophisten Schrifften sind probirt und nach deren Werth dargestellt worden, beschrieben in zweyen Classen (The long-desired and promised chemical-philosophical touchstone, on which the writings of both the true hermetic adepts and the deceptive and fraudulent sophists have been tested and their value assessed, described in two classes) (1753), an annotated bibliography of alchemical writings, he distinguishes between those he considers true adepts and sophists or charlatans. He criticized the works of alchemists such as Wallich) with “great severity”, castigating them as fit only for burning.[4]
- ^ Tochter des Obersteuereinnehmers Heinrich Fischer (1611-1665) in Weimar und der Anna Catharina, Tochter des evang. Theologen David Lipach (“Daughter of the chief tax collector Heinrich Fischer (1611-1665)”, Weimar and Anna Catharina, daughter of the Protestant theologian David Lipach) (in German)
- ^ Schmieder: Die Geschichte der Alchemie (The history of alchemy), p. 513 (in German)
- ^ Kraft, Alexander (2019). “Dorothea Juliana Wallich (1657-1725) and Her Contributions to the Chymical Knowledge about the Element Cobalt”. In Lykknes, Annette; Van Tiggelen, Brigitte (eds.). Women in Their Element: Selected Women’s Contributions To The Periodic System. Singapore: World Scientific..
- ^ Macrakis, Kristie (2014). Prisoners, lovers, & spies : the story of invisible ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300179255.
- Kraft, Alexander: Dorothea Juliana Wallich (1657–1725) and Her Contributions to the Chymical Knowledge about the Element Cobalt. In: Annette Lykknes, Brigitte van Tiggelen (Hrsg.): Women in their Element, World Scientific 2019, pp. 57–69.
- Kraft, Alexander: Dorothea Juliana Wallich, geb. Fischer (1657–1725), eine Alchemistin aus Thüringen. In: Genealogie Deutsche Zeitschrift für Familienkunde. Band XXXIII/66. Jahrgang, Heft 3, Degener & Co, Berlin 2017, pp. 539–555. (in German)
- Jette Anders: 33 Alchemistinnen. Die verborgene Seite einer alten Wissenschaft. Vergangenheitsverlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 9783864082047, pp. 182–188. (in German)
- Helmut Gebelein: Alchemie (Diederichs Gelbe Reihe; Bd. 165). Hugendubel, Kreuzlingen 2000, ISBN 3896314025 (EA München 1991), p. (in German) 190. (in German)
- Karl Christoph Schieder: Die Geschichte der Alchemie. Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, Halle 1832, pp. 513–514.
