Q:Facts: - death place: helmstedt , kingdom of westphalia - residence: germany - doctoral students: christian heinrich bunger - known for: production of cinnabar red dye - caption: gottfried christoph beireis - fields: physicist , chemist , and physician - death date: 18 september 1809 - workplaces: university of helmstedt - doctoral advisor: lorenz heister - academic advisors: georg erhardt hamberger - birth date: 02 march 1730 - name: gottfried christoph beireis - image size: 300px - nationality: german - image: gottfried christoph beireis.jpg - birth place: free imperial city of muhlhausen , holy roman empire - alma mater: university of helmstedt Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of gottfried christoph beireis .
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gottfried christoph beireis -lrb- 2 march 1730 -- 18 september 1809 -rrb- was a german chemist and doctor .he was also a collector of curiosities who rescued some of jacques de vaucanson 's automata .beireis was born in muhlhausen .he taught anatomy , medicine , surgery , chemistry , botany , natural history , pharmacy , mineralogy , metallurgy , agriculture , forestry , music , painting , and numismatics .as a student , he discovered a way to convert ammonium sulfide to cinnabar and made a fortune selling the latter as a red dye .beireis was a student of georg erhardt hamberger 's in jena in 1753 .beireis became a professor in 1759 without having obtained his md degree ; the degree was awarded subsequently for work done at helmstadt under lorenz heister between 1756 and 1759 .he died in helmstedt .