Emil floor stick

Emil Bodenstab (born July 20, 1856 in Calvörde ; † August 23, 1924 in Braunschweig ) was a pharmacist and local researcher .

Life

Letter to Bodenstab

Emil Bodenstab was born in Calvörde as the son of the pharmacy owner Friedrich Wilhelm Bodenstab. He attended the local elementary school, then the high schools in Clausthal and Helmstedt .

After attaining maturity, he turned to the pharmacist profession. In 1875 he started his apprenticeship with his father and completed it with his uncle in Hildesheim . In 1885 he married the daughter of the Lord Mayor of Göppingen and returned to Calvörde, where his father gave him the Löwen pharmacy .

Bodenstab was a man thirsty for knowledge. On countless hikes he explored the flora of his homeland in the Ohretal , so that he soon became a connoisseur. He devoted himself to the natural sciences and local research. In 1913 he moved his residence to Braunschweig, where he continued to conduct scientific research and worked as a librarian in the Natural Science Association and as a driver in the Harz Club in Braunschweig. The collections he set up in Magdeburg and Braunschweig were largely destroyed in World War II . He died in Braunschweig on August 23, 1924.

literature

• Rudi Fischer: 800 years of Calvörde. A chronicle to 1991, the development of the health system in Calvörde.
• Heinz Nowak : Floor staff, Emil. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , p. 68 f. ( Article online ).