Alexander Müller (pharmacist)

Alexander Müller (born January 17, 1871 in Linden , Lower Saxony , † March 2, 1932 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German pharmacist.

Since his youth, which he spent in Metz , he was sickly and had to drop out of high school. After completing his apprenticeship and fitness training, he studied pharmacy in Munich and received his license to practice medicine on June 16, 1898.

At the beginning of December 1901 he married Gabriele (Maria Katharina) Masson in Strasbourg and took over the Löwenapotheke in Bad Kreuznach. He was known to the locals as "Löwenmüller".

He also devoted himself to research into the causes of diseases. Based on his experience that “food can be acidic or alkaline” and that the ratio is not balanced in the case of illness, which causes putrefaction in the body, he developed twelve special base salt mixtures - called Sepdelen 1 to Sepdelen 12, with which he treated various ailments. He called this form of therapy "Sepdelenopathy", for which he was reported several times, but not convicted. The term is derived from gr. Sepsis (putrefaction) and lat. Deleo (to destroy). In April 1911 he founded his Sepdelen factory at Gerbergasse 24, with which he moved to Bosenheimer Str. 218 (later the Martini building) in 1928. Müller gave numerous lectures to spread his healing method. From the mid-1920s he turned to astrology and occultism; he was enthusiastic about Karl E. Neupert's hollow world theory , but rejected Hörbiger's world ice theory .

In 1925, his villa in the park at Weyersstrasse 3 was built according to plans by Hermann Tesch. In 1928 he had a fish girl made by the sculptor Hanna Cauer as a fountain figure for his Sepdelen works, which is supposed to symbolize the invigorating effect of his preparation.

After his death, Paul Karl Johannes Sosinski took over the management of the plant. August Eder managed the pharmacy for the community of heirs until 1938.

literature

• Axel Helmstädter: Destroying the putrefaction - Sepdelenopathy according to Alexander Müller , in: Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke u. a. (Ed.): Materials on the history of pharmacy. Files from the 31st Congress for the History of Pharmacy (Heidelberg 1993), Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1995, pp. 211–214
• Rolf Schaller: Alexander Müller: from grape juice to Sepdelen ; In: Naheland calendar ; 2007, pp. 195-197
• Axel Helmstädter: Alexander Müller, founder of Sepdelenopathy ; In: Pharmazeutische Zeitung , Volume 138, 1993, pp. 2387-2390
• Entry in Deutsche Apotheker-Biographie , supplementary volume Stuttgart 1986, pp. 326–327

Publications (selection)

• Chronic diseases. Their creation. Detection by urine analysis. Waving and healing ; Kreuznach, 1907
• Our fate: Common introduction to the biological healing process Sepdelenopathie , Hamburg 1927, Lebensweiser-Verlag in Gettenbach near Gelnhausen, 1930
• The treatment of chronic diseases with Sepdelen preparations , Kreuznach 1909
• Sepdelenopathy. A new biochemical healing process. Cologne 1921
• Doctrine of prescription for sepdelenopathy , Bad Kreuznach 1924
• Doctrine of prescription for the biological healing process sepdelenopathy for medical use , Hamburg 1926
• Sepdelenopathy. The new biological healing process. Brief summary , Hamburg 1926
• Religion in the light of biological research , Kreuznach 1919
• Astrology and Occultism: Their Relationship to Soul Life , Hamburg 1925
• Cosmic and earthly rays as causative agents of diseases , Hamburg 1926
• Cosmos and man. Philosophical-biological-scientific lecture given in the winter of 1926/27 in the largest cities in Germany , Hamburg: Steffens 1929
• Detailed description of the "Weltbild nach Neupert-Müller" , 1930
• Astrology and occultism. The solar plexus as an organ for occult processes , Gettenbach 1931

Web links

• Kreuznach personalities
• Appreciation
• Zentralblatt für Occultismus , 23.1929 / 30