Alfons Lutz

Alfons Lutz (born July 25, 1903 in Seelisberg , † June 9, 1985 in Basel , legal resident in Basel and Medels in the Rheinwald ) was a Swiss pharmacist and pharmacy historian.

Life

Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery , Basel

Alfons Lutz was born on July 25, 1903 in Seelisberg, the son of the carpenter Georg Lutz and the tailor Brigitte, née Scheuber. Lutz began studying pharmacy in Basel . In 1928 he passed the state examination as a pharmacist. Two years later he founded the Stern pharmacy in Basel. In 1938 he finally received his doctorate in Basel.

In addition to his work as a pharmacist, he devoted himself to the history of pharmacy and became a specialist in pharmaceutical manuscripts of the Middle Ages . He rediscovered the Antidotarius magnus from the 11th century, one of the first medieval pharmacopoeias , in a manuscript from the 12th century and published the work in 1959. Lutz was between 1942 and 1972 in the Basel university library active as curator of the Pharmaceutical History Museum in Basel .

Alfons Lutz married Marie Hedwig, the daughter of Walter Odermatt, in 1932. He died on June 9, 1985, just before the age of 82, in Basel.

Honor

In 1964, the University of Basel awarded him an honorary doctorate .

literature

François Ledermann (Ed.): Swiss pharmacist biography. Pieces of the mosaic on the history of the Swiss Pharmacists' Association (1843–1993). Festschrift for the 150th anniversary [...]. Bern 1993 (= publications of the Swiss Society for the History of Pharmacy. Volume 12), with catalog raisonné .
Festschrift Alfons Lutz and Jakob Büchi. Edited by Hans-Rudolf Fehlmann and François Ledermann, Zurich 1983 (= publications of the Swiss Society for the History of Pharmacy , 2).

Web links

François Ledermann: Lutz, Alfons. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Literature by and about Alfons Lutz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. for example Alfons Lutz: Chronological connections of the alphabetically arranged medieval antidotaria. In: Robert Blaser, Heinrich Buess (Hrsg.): Current problems from the history of medicine. Negotiations of the XIX. International Congress of the History of Medicine. Basel (1964) 1966, pp. 253-258.
↑ Christina Becela-Deller: Ruta graveolens L. A medicinal plant in terms of art and cultural history. (Mathematical and natural scientific dissertation Würzburg 1994) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1998 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 65). ISBN 3-8260-1667-X , p. 122 f.
↑ Alfons Lutz: The lost early Salernitan Antidotarius magnus in a Basel manuscript from the 12th century and the Antidotarium Nicolai. In: Publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy. New series, Volume 16, Stuttgart 1960, pp. 97-133. Abbreviated under the title Der Verschollene Antidotarius magnus in a Basel manuscript from the 12th century and the 'Antidotarium Nicolai'. also in: Acta Pharmaciae Historica. Volume 1, 1959, pp. 1-25.
↑ See also Alfons Lutz: The Dynameron of the so-called Nikolaos Myrepsis and the Antidotarium Nicolai. In: Publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy. New series, Volume 21, Stuttgart 1961, pp. 57-73.

personal data
SURNAME	Lutz, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss pharmacist and pharmacy historian
DATE OF BIRTH	July 25, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Seelisberg
DATE OF DEATH	June 9, 1985
Place of death	Basel

[1] Cf. for example Alfons Lutz: Chronological connections of the alphabetically arranged medieval antidotaria. In: Robert Blaser, Heinrich Buess (Hrsg.): Current problems from the history of medicine. Negotiations of the XIX. International Congress of the History of Medicine. Basel (1964) 1966, pp. 253-258.

[2] Christina Becela-Deller: Ruta graveolens L. A medicinal plant in terms of art and cultural history. (Mathematical and natural scientific dissertation Würzburg 1994) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1998 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Volume 65). ISBN 3-8260-1667-X , p. 122 f.

[3] Alfons Lutz: The lost early Salernitan Antidotarius magnus in a Basel manuscript from the 12th century and the Antidotarium Nicolai. In: Publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy. New series, Volume 16, Stuttgart 1960, pp. 97-133. Abbreviated under the title Der Verschollene Antidotarius magnus in a Basel manuscript from the 12th century and the 'Antidotarium Nicolai'. also in: Acta Pharmaciae Historica. Volume 1, 1959, pp. 1-25.

[4] See also Alfons Lutz: The Dynameron of the so-called Nikolaos Myrepsis and the Antidotarium Nicolai. In: Publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy. New series, Volume 21, Stuttgart 1961, pp. 57-73.