Alexander Tschirch

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Alexander Tschirch. Photograph by Henn, 1926. Wellcome V0027271.jpg

Wilhelm Oswald Alexander Tschirch (born October 17, 1856 in Guben ; † December 2, 1939 in Bern , Switzerland ) was a pharmacist and professor of pharmacy in Bern. The focus of his work were studies of pharmacognosy , plant anatomy , studies of anthraquinone glycosides and contributions to drug testing .

Life

Alexander Tschirch was the first son of the Protestant pastor Carl Adolf Tschirch (1815–1875) and his wife Marie, née. Sausse, born. His younger brother Otto (1858–1941) was a German educator, historian and archivist who, in addition to his teaching activities, researched and published in particular the urban history of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel.

Tschirch completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Dresden by 1875 and worked in the Bern State Pharmacy from 1877. 1878 to 1880 studied at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. During his studies he became a member of the Vandalia Berlin Landsmannschaft in 1879 . In 1880 he received his license to practice medicine and received his doctorate in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1881 . From 1890 to 1932 he was Professor of Pharmacy and Pharmacognosy at the University of Bern .

Act

Resin extraction in France, wood engraving in the Tschirch factory (1906)

In Bern, Tschirch devoted himself to the research and collection of resins and other plant extracts with great commitment . This resulted in a large collection of these substances and his book, The Resins and Resin Containers Including Milky Juices, which was considered a standard work at the time (2nd and expanded edition 1906, 1268 pages).

A large part of the works on materia medica that Tschirch has collected are now in the Historical Library of Swiss Pharmacy in Bern.

Honors

Works

  • Experienced and strived for: life memories . Bonn, 1921
  • together with Erich Stock: Die Harze . 3rd revised edition, Volume 1, 2.1, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, Berlin Bornträger, 1933–1936
  • Handbook of Pharmacognosy . Volume 1-3. Leipzig, Tauchnitz 1909–1925
    • Eduard Remy (Ed.): General register for Tschirch's handbook of pharmacognosy. Leipzig 1927.
  • Les Problèmes modern de la Pharmacognosie . 1911 ( digitized version )
  • Terminology and systematics in the pharmacochemical systems of drugs, especially in the carbohydrate group . 1911. ( digitized version )
  • Natural research and medicine: Speech, occasionally given by the rectorate at the foundation ceremony of the University of Bern on November 28, 1908 . 1909 ( digitized version )
  • The resins and the resin containers including the milk juices . Leipzig (Borntraeger) 2nd edition 1906
  • Anatomical atlas of pharmacognosy and food science: with 81 plates. Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1900 digitized edition
  • The copper from the standpoint of forensic chemistry, toxicology and hygiene: with special consideration of the reverdissage of the canned food and the coppering of the wine and the potatoes / by Alexander Tschirch. Enke, Stuttgart 1893 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Investigations on the secretions . Series of publications in the Pharmacy Archives , from 1890
  • About photographic recordings in the tropics, with special consideration of botanical objects . In: Photographische Mitteilungen , Vol. 26, 1889/1890, pp. 83f. and 97f.

literature

  • Kirsten Bork: Alexander Tschirch: A study on the life of a pioneering pharmacognostic and his understanding of pharmacognosy with special consideration of his main work (Handbuch der Pharmakognosie) . Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann 2003, ISBN 3-8260-2702-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on Carl Adolf Tschirch see: Vera Grützner: Tschirch, Carl Adolf . In: Friedrich Beck , Eckart Henning (Hrsg.): Brandenburgisches Biographisches Lexikon (= individual publication of the Brandenburg Historical Commission eV, Volume 5). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-935035-39-X , p. 399; Richard Schaal: Tschirch, family . In: Music in the past and present . Volume 13, 1966, columns 924-926; Tschirch, six brothers . In: Alfred Einstein (editor): Hugo Riemanns Musiklexikon . 11th edition, Berlin 1929, p. 1889
  2. ^ Berthold Ohm and Alfred Philipp (eds.): Directory of addresses of the old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Part 1. Hamburg 1932, p. 563.
  3. ↑ Member entry of Alexander Tschirch at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 18, 2015.
  4. ↑ Winkler, Ludwig : F. Winkler's city pharmacy in Innsbruck . Innsbruck 1928 [Overview on the cover: Personnel composition of the Society for the History of Pharmacy founded on August 18, 1926 in Hall in Tirol]
personal data
SURNAME Tschirch, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacy scientist
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Guben
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1939
Place of death Bern , Switzerland