Education
In 1794 he graduated from the University of Jena, later serving as a lecturer at the gymnasium in Weimar.
In 1794 he graduated from the University of Jena, later serving as a lecturer at the gymnasium in Weimar.
In 1800 he was appointed a professor of physics at the University of Halle, shortly afterwards working as a manager at a stoneware factory in Potsdam. In 1803 he relocated to the University of Dorpat as a professor of chemistry, and during the following year returned to Saint St. Petersburg as a professor of chemistry and pharmacy at the medico-surgical academy. Scherer was instrumental in the creation of the "Pharmaceutical Society of Saint St. Petersburg", an institution in which he served as its first president
Russian Academy of Sciences]
In 1815 he became a full member of the Saint St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.