Alexander Wassiljewitsch Poehl
Alexander Wassiljewitsch Poehl ( Russian Александр Васильевич Пель , Russian Pel, also quoted Pehl; * February 27, 1850 in Saint Petersburg , † August 28, 1908 in Berlin ) was a German pharmacist and chemist in Saint Petersburg.
The Poehls immigrated as craftsmen from Perleberg to Russia at the beginning of the 19th century . The Poehl pharmacy was the most famous pharmacy in Saint Petersburg in the second half of the 19th century. Alexander's father, Wilhelm (Wassili) Poehl ( Russian Василий Васильевич Пель , 1820–1903) bought it in 1848 and in 1871 it became the court pharmacy.
Alexander Poehl went to the private high school Dr. Wiedemann in Saint Petersburg and the Reformed Church School there. From 1869 to 1872 he attended the Imperial Medical and Surgical Academy in Saint Petersburg, where he graduated as a commissioner and master's degree in pharmacy in 1873 (in Russia, this was linked to the license to teach at universities in this subject and from 1873 he worked as a court expert for poisons). In 1876 he received his doctorate in Giessen (application of optical aids in the forensic chemical determination of plant toxins). He took over his father's pharmacy in 1875 and set up a laboratory there. He was also a scientist and the pharmacy became a center of scientific research. In 1880 the master's degree in chemistry followed in Dorpat and in 1882 he received his doctorate there in chemistry. He died at a conference in Berlin.
In 1918 the pharmacy was nationalized. It still exists today as a museum (from 1983).
Poehl taught at the St. Petersburg Military Academy of Medicine and in 1886 received an honorary professorship at the Imperial Medical Academy. From 1878 to 1892 he was on the Medical Advisory Board of the Ministry of the Interior.
In 1982 he founded the journal for medicinal chemistry and pharmacy (from 1900 journal for medicinal chemistry and organotherapy, discontinued in 1913).
He was a councilor. In 1884 he was raised to hereditary nobility. In 1883 he received the Order of Vladimir 4th class.
Poehl researched and published over 150 papers (in Russian, German, French) in analytical, medical and forensic chemistry. The welding of sterile injection solutions in glass ampoules is said to go back to him.
His sons Richard von Poehl (1877–1947), a chemist, and the doctor Alfred von Poehl (1878–1950) also became scientists. Until 1927, the Poehls had a pharmacy with an organ therapy center and pharmaceutical factory as well as branches in Nizhny Novgorod and Novosibirsk . Most of the relatives then emigrated again.
literature
- Anna Ivachnova, Natalia Decker, Ingrid Kästner: The Poehl family of pharmacists. In: Erich Donnert (ed.): Europe in the early modern times. Festschrift for Günter Mühlpfordt. Volume 6, Böhlau 2002, p. 582 ff.
Web links
- Biography on the Saint Petersburg website, with a photo of the pharmacy
- Russia Today, Natalja Fedotowa: Twelve Germans who made careers in Russia: Wilhelm Pehl, number 11 in the series (the photo shows Alexander Pehl)
- Biography at the SAW
Individual evidence
- ^ Voice of Russia on Pharmacy History in Russia
- ↑ There are local legends in Saint Petersburg about the Greifenturm in the pharmacy, which speak of alchemists. The pharmacy is called Andrewskaya Pharmacy among the Saint Petersburgers because it is near Andreevsky Cathedral
- ^ Aloys Henning Symposium German-Russian Relations in Medicine and Natural Science in the 18th and 19th Centuries , East European Institute Berlin, summary of the lecture by Eugenie Poehl-Tanger, pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Poehl, Alexander Wassiljewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Пель, Александр Васильевич (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian chemist and pharmacist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1908 |
| Place of death | Berlin |