Franz Anton Cramer

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Former court pharmacy on the market
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Franz Anton Cramer (* 1776 in Paderborn; † May 9, 1829 in Paderborn) was a court pharmacist in Paderborn . The Cramer'sche Hofapotheke is the later Adler pharmacy on the market in Paderborn. He is the great-grandfather of the writer Hermann Löns .

Discovery of morphine

On October 1, 1799, Friedrich Sertürner began an apprenticeship there, which he finished after four years. During this time he began his scientific work, which later became the basis for the discovery of morphine . In 1804, Friedrich Sertürner isolated morphine from the aqueous opium extract for the first time in the Cramer's court pharmacy .

literature

  • Fritz Cramer: Stammliste Cramer-Paderborn. In: Westfälisches Familien-Archiv, Volume 8/9 1926, pp. 101-104 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.gtfch.org/cms/images/stories/media/tk/tk67_3/giebelmann.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.pharmazeutische-zeitung.de/index.php?id=26551
  3. ↑ http://www.sertuerner-gesellschaft.de/sertuerner.htm
personal data
SURNAME Cramer, Franz Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Court pharmacist in Paderborn
DATE OF BIRTH 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Paderborn
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1829
Place of death Paderborn