Occupation Dyer Children Heinrich Gottlieb | Spouse(s) Christina Hübner Parents Georg Marx Gülich | |
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Born 1733 Cannstatt, Germany Died September 1808 (aged 70) | ||
Jeremias Friedrich Gülich was a dyer in the neighbourhood of Stuttgart: he published Complete Dyeing and Bleaching Book an elaborate 6 Volume work on the technical details of dying. He made contributions in improving the body of scientific knowledge on colour. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe praised Jeremias' contribution to optics heavily in his book Theory of Colours. Although Jeremias and Goethe never conversed personally, Jeremias was very pleased to be praised by a figure so well known. Jeremias also helped to set industry standards on dying, most notably of sheep wool. After writing his books between in Sindelfingen between the years of 1776-1778, he ran a military orphanage in Ludwigsburg, where the boys spun cotton and the girls knitted and spun of cotton & flax. In 1785 Jeremias opened his own cotton mill. By the end of his life he had become the sole supplier of clothing to the military and also opened a saltpeter and gunpowder factory.