Friedrich Meurer

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Friedrich Meurer (born October 18, 1792 in Pretzsch (Elbe) , † April 26, 1866 in Dresden ) was a German pharmacologist and physician.

Life

The son of the judicial officer Gottlob Friedrich Meurer (* 1766 ; † June 7, 1836 ) and Johanna Dorothea Sophia (née Küchler) had attended school in his hometown. Although he would have liked to study, he had to complete an apprenticeship in the Salomonisapotheke in Leipzig at the age of fourteen due to lack of funds from his parents' house . After he had finished his apprenticeship in 1811, he moved to Wittenberg , where he had found a job as an assistant to August Ferdinand Ludwig Dörffurt in the Adler pharmacy . In 1812 he went to Dresden, where he found a job in the Marienapotheke . Although he would have liked to take part in the fight against the French in the war of liberation , in 1814 he had to take over the management of the local pharmacy in his hometown.

When Napoleon, coming from Elba in 1815, threatened Europe again, Meurer entered military service as a lieutenant. However, since Napoleon's uprising was quickly suppressed, he was not confronted with any military conflict. Returning to Saxony, he found a new job as a pharmacist in Calau and in December 1816 took over the administration of the pharmacy for the white eagle in the Friedrichstadt of Dresden . After this employment relationship ended in 1817 and his father had a little more financial means due to his transfer to Voigsberg, Meurer began studying medicine at the University of Leipzig in 1818 .

Above all were Ernst Heinrich Weber , Friedrich August Benjamin Puchelt and Friedrich Philipp Ritterich (1782-1866) his teachers. Of these promoted, he graduated from the 1822 Baccalaurat of medicine and graduated in February 1826 with the thesis "de vitandis in praescribendo Mercurio sublimato corrosivo vitiis" the doctor of medicine. Since he had a throat ailment while studying medicine, he went to Dresden in 1830, where he took over the administration of the Marienapotheke, which belonged to his later brother-in-law Christoph Friedrich Sartorius Jun. (From 1809 to 1848). During that time he developed this into a recognized training center and raised the level of the pharmacy.

Meurer, who succeeded in joining the Saxon pharmacists to the North German Pharmacists' Association in 1840, gave up his activity at the Dresden pharmacy in 1848 to devote himself to chemical studies as a court chemist. In 1856 he founded the Dresden Pharmacists' Association, devoted himself to a scientifically sound training course for pharmacologists and dealt with pharmaceutical analysis. Meurer had also published numerous articles in the pharmacological journals "Pharmaceutical-chemical Zentralblatt" and "Archiv für Pharmazie" and with its editor Ludwig Franz Bley (born August 22, 1801 in Bernburg; † May 13, 1868 ibid) a memorandum on the point of view published by pharmacy. The Meurer Foundation of the North German Pharmacists' Association preserved his memory.

Friedrich Meurer was the brother of the Protestant theologian and church historian Moritz Meurer (1806–1877).

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SURNAME Meurer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacologist and physician
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretzsch (Elbe)
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1866
Place of death Dresden