Friedrich Jacob Merck (18 February 1621—1678) was a Germanpharmacist and a member of theMerck family. He was the founder of the world's oldestpharmaceutical company, now known as theMerck Group, which was established in 1668.^[1][2]

Friedrich Jacob Merck was the son of Johann Merck (1573–1642), an innkeeper fromSchweinfurt who ran theZum Schwarzen Bären inn and who was a member of the city council. He did an apprenticeship in the Ratsapotheke in his hometown. He first owned a pharmacy inWesselburen, before moving toDarmstadt. In 1668 he acquired the second city pharmacy there, theEngel-Apotheke, which became the start of the Merck company.

Friedrich Jacob Merck died in 1678 without any descendants. He had chosen his nephewGeorg Friedrich Merck [de] (1647–1715) as his successor.^[3]

At Friedrich Jacob Merck was many siblings from his father's three marriages:

• Johann Jacob Merck (1599–1599)
• Anna Dorothea Merck (1600–1633)
• Johann Hartmann Merck (1602–1672)
• Anna Cordula Merck (1606–1611)
• Anna Margaretha Merck (1611–1611)
• Georg Merck (1611–1683) – pharmacist and father of pharmacist Georg Friedrich Merck.
• Johann Christoph Merck (1614–1679)
• Anna Rosina Merck (1616–1616)
• Anna Maria Merck (1618–1681), in 1641 got married Johann Georg Biegmann (1613–1671).
• Johannes Merck (1623–1684)
• Amalia Elisabetha Merck (1628–1666), in 1649 got married Michael Engelhardt (1607–1675).

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