Eugene Holdermann

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Eugen Holdermann (born March 29, 1852 in Heidelberg , † January 27, 1906 in Karlsruhe ) was a German pharmacist and manufacturer.

Life

Eugen Holdermann attended high school in his hometown and joined Dr. Vulpius started his apprenticeship in Boxberg and completed it in Mosbach in 1870 with the preliminary examination. He also spent his time as an assistant in Boxbach, also in Karlsruhe , Donaueschingen and, after completing his military service in 1873, in Hildesheim .

At the age of 21 he began his pharmacy studies at the University of Heidelberg and passed the pharmaceutical state examination in 1875 and shortly afterwards received his doctorate under Bunsen. phil. Holdermann actually wanted to embark on an academic career, but in 1875 he went to the Heidelberg university pharmacy as an assistant and later took over the administration of Siegfried's pharmacy in Zofingen . At a suggestion from Bunsen, he was employed as an assistant in the newly created clinical pharmacy in Heidelberg in 1876. In 1878 he received the license to run the pharmacy in Seelbach bei Lahr and set up a large laboratory there, a mineral water factory. In today Baden-Baden belonging Lichtental Holdermann 1887 received the right to use the pharmacy to which he also joined a manufacturing laboratory for pharmaceutical preparations and a mineral water factory.

In Karlsruhe he continued his education through bacteriological studies. In 1903 he set up the Hilda pharmacy in Karlsruhe with a pharmaceutical and a scientific laboratory.

As early as 1879, with his pharmacy laboratory in Seelbach, he laid the foundation for the Holdermann company in Baden-Baden, which his son Richard († 1966) expanded into an important pharmaceutical wholesaler. There, among other things, large quantities of volumetric solutions were made for sale. He wrote and published a booklet about their production and use, thus becoming one of the pioneers for dimensional analysis in pharmacy . In 1904 he succeeded in producing Hydrargyrum oxycyanatum verum for the first time in the laboratory of his pharmacy in Karlsruhe (in Erg B. of DAB 6 ), which is listed in the Merck directory as Hydrargyrum oxycyanatum Holdermann. From 1887 to 1891 he worked at the Real Encyclopedia of Pharmacy .

literature

Works

  • About the contamination of officinal hydrochloric acid with phosphoric acid (1878)
  • About the determination of morphine by iodometric methods (lecture at the meeting of natural scientists and doctors in Heidelberg, 1889)
  • Hager's investigations (with H. Hager), 2nd revised edition, 2nd volume, Leipzig (1888)
  • Chemical reagents and reactions of the pharmacopoeia (with E. Kindle, 1901)

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personal data
SURNAME Holdermann, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist and manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1906
Place of death Karlsruhe