Ernst Friedrich Struve was the son of Ernst Gotthold Struve and Charlotte Magdalene Struve. He married Rahel Dorothea Hentsch. Their son was Friedrich Adolph August Struve and their daughter was Juliane Christiane Wilhelmine who married Carl Julius Fritzsche. The brother of Ernst Friedrich was Friedrich Gotthold Struve (* 24. January 1742 in Kiel; † 19. September 1813 Oldenburg).
On September 8th, 1774, Dr. medical Ernst Friedrich Struve opened a pharmacy “on the market between Neumann’s and Hauschild’s houses on Niedergasse”, today’s Dresdner Straße 1, where he worked until 1806. From 1803 – 1805 Friedrich Adolf August Struve worked in his father’s pharmacy.
Ernst qualified as a medical doctor and his publications include:
- Das große Unglück einer frühzeitigen Beerdigung aus ältern und neuern Geschichten deutlich bewiesen Zum Unterricht und Warnung besonders des Landmanns aufgesetzet [The great misfortune of an early burial clearly demonstrated from older and more recent stories]
- Disputatio Inauguralis Medica De Ovorum Gallinaceorvm Vsv Medico …
- Ordinis Medici In Academia Christian-Albertina H. T. Decanus D. Fridericus Christianus Struve … Bigae Medicinae Candidatorum Ernesti Friderici Struve, Kiloniensis Et Friderici Gottholdi Struve, Kilionensis … Indicit Quaedam Praefatus De Sermocinatione Post Assumtos Cibos Egregio Sanitatis Praesidio …
- Prorector Et Senatus Academiae Holsaticae, Monumentum Funebre … Ernesto Gottholdo Struvio … Qui Petropoli Die XXI. Novemb. S.V. Anno M DCC XXXXIII … Dicat Consecratque, Et Memorabile Hoc Et Virtutis … This was a funeral book for his father with many family members contributing including Ernst Friedrich:
