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Gmelin was appointed professor of medicine in Tübingen in 1772, and in 1775 accepted the chair of medicine and chemistry at Göttingen. In 1788 he published the 13th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Naturae with many additions and alterations.

He was the father of the chemist Leopold GmelinLeopold Gmelin ( August 2, 1788 April 13, 1853) was a German chemist. Gmelin was the son of Johann Friedrich Gmelin. He studied medicine and chemistry at Gottingen, Tubingen and Vienna, and in 1813 began to lecture on chemistry at Heidelberg, where in 181.