Carl Stupper

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Carl Leopold Stupper (born June 30, 1808 in Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria , † August 11, 1874 in Vienna ) was an Austrian physician and pharmacist.

Life

Example from Medical-Pharmaceutical Botany, Volume 1

Carl Stupper attended grammar school in Vienna and then studied philosophy at the University of Vienna . After completing his studies in 1828, he trained as a pharmacist in Baden and worked in several pharmacies in Germany and abroad. He then studied pharmacy and chemistry again in Vienna and received his diploma in 1834 . He completed his scientific training in Germany for a year before he began studying medicine at the University of Vienna. In 1842 he received his doctorate in medicine and a master's degree in obstetrics here. His dissertation , entitled Die Metallvergiftungen , deals with poisoning by arsenic , mercury , copper , lead , antimony , silver , zinc , tin , chromium , bismuth , gold and iron . Stupper describes the effects of the poisons , the symptoms in humans and the treatment options.

He then taught physics , chemistry and botany as an assistant at the University of Vienna and worked as a doctor for the poor in Rossau in Vienna's 9th district . From 1850 he practiced as a doctor in the inner city .

In the years 1841 (Volume 1) to 1843 (Volume 2) Stupper wrote his extensive work Medicinisch-Pharmaceutische Botany or description and illustration of all medicinal plants listed in the Austrian State Pharmacopoeia of 1836 . On a total of 500 pages, it presents the plants in detail for students, doctors and pharmacists. In particular, it deals with their effects, their applications in medicine and the dangers of confusion. Many plants are also shown on hand-colored drawings.

Carl Stupper was politically active and was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Guard during the 1848 revolution . In 1861 he was sent to the local council by the Alsergrund district . There he suggested the construction of the first Viennese spring pipeline to supply Vienna with drinking water from the Rax-Schneeberg area.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stupper, Karl . In: Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire . Part fortieth, Streeruwitz - Suszycki. KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1880, p. 207 ( literature.at [accessed on January 26, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Medicinisch-Pharmaceutische Botanik, C. Stupper, Volume 1. Retrieved January 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Medicinisch-Pharmaceutische Botanik, C. Stupper, Volume 2. Retrieved January 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Stupper Carl . In: Austrian Academy of Sciences (ed.): Austrian biographical lexicon . tape 14 . Verlag der Österr. Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1815, p. 6 ( biographien.ac.at [accessed on January 26, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Stupper, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stupper, Carl Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physician and pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1874
Place of death Vienna