Friedrich Accum

Friedrich Accum (1769–1838) was a german chemist.

Portraits

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  Accum as a young boy, oilpainting by Accum’s brother-in-law Wilhelm Strack
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  Oilpainting by Samuel Drummond
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  Engraving by James Thomson for the European Magazine, July 1820

Other pictures and prints relating to Accum

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  Caricature by Thomas Rowlandson. In the foreground an elderly man with a book Accum’s Lectures in his pocket.
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  Accum’s professional card (1814)

Works

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  First Gasworks, London 1814 (from A Practical Treatise on Gas-Light, London 1815)
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  Title page of Accums Culinary Chemistry (London 1821)
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  “There ist death in the pot” – Cover of Accum’s A treatise on adulterations of food and culinary poisons, London 1820
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  German translation of Accum’s A treatise on adulterations of food and culinary poisons by L. Cerutti, Leipzig 1822

Newspaper articles related to the Accum trial

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  Mr. Frederick Accum (The Times January 10, 1821)
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  Mr. Accum’s Case (The Times April 6, 1821)

Original documents

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  Document granting the membership of the Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde Berlin to Friedrich Accum, November 1st, 1814
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  Letter from Accum to his brother, April 26th, 1816, fol. 1r
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  Letter from Accum to his brother, April 26th, 1816, fol. 1v
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  Letter from Accum to his brother, April 26th, 1816, fol. 2r
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  Letter from Accum to his brother, April 26th, 1816, fol. 2v
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  Letter from Accum to Johann Gottlob Nathusius, August 22nd, 1822, fol. 4r
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  Letter from Accum to Johann Gottlob Nathusius, August 22nd, 1822, fol. 5v
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  Document granting the membership of the Verein zur Beförderung des Gartenbaues in Preussen to Friedrich Accum, January 1st, 1823