Education
Trained as a pharmacist in Magdeburg and Weimar, he later studied medicine at the University of Jena, where he obtained his doctorate in 1764.
Trained as a pharmacist in Magdeburg and Weimar, he later studied medicine at the University of Jena, where he obtained his doctorate in 1764.
Several years later, he became head of the Hofapotheke (court pharmacy) in Weimar. Here, Johann Friedrich August Göttling worked as his assistant and Johann Trommsdorff served as an apprentice. As his career progressed, he received the posts of Hof-Medikus (court physician, 1777) and Bergrat (counsellor of mines, 1782).
Reportedly, the two men conducted water purification experiments through the use of powdered charcoal.
Academy of Useful Science. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities]
Bucholz remained an honored member of Goethe"s Freitagsgesellschaft up until his death in 1798.