Günther Kerstein

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Günther Gustav Kerstein (born October 11, 1904 in Hameln ; † March 29, 1979 there ) was a pharmacist and chemical historian.

Life

His father, Wilhelm Kerstein (1859–1922), had been a pharmacist in the Raths pharmacy in Hameln since 1890 .

Günther Kerstein studied pharmacy with the chemist Georg Lockemann in Berlin and medicine in Munich and Münster.

He married Elfriede Russell. Their son Eike Wilhelm, who also became a pharmacist, was born on September 13, 1938.

After the Second World War he took over the management of the Raths pharmacy. In the 1950s he started producing his own medicines. He founded the Pharmaceutical Factory in Hameln , which offered cardiac glycosides in ampoule form, and Galenopharm , which manufactured veterinary preparations. After several acquisitions, the company has been trading under the name Pharma Hameln GmbH since 1978 . In 1967 his son took over the management of the family business with 200 employees. In 2014 the company was taken over by the Siegfried Group .

At the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , he was a lecturer in the history of chemistry and pharmacy. He was also treasurer and chairman of the chemistry department in the German Society for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology in Frankfurt.

Publications

  • Index on the history of medicine, science and technology ; with Johannes Steudel and Otto Mahr; Urban and Schwarzenberg, 1953
  • About the medical work of the morphine discoverer Sertürner ; In: Scientific journal of the Karl Marx University ; Volume 5; Leipzig; 1956
  • Pharmacological investigations of some valerian ingredients and of valerian tinctures made from fresh and dried drugs ; Göttingen, 1950
  • Unveiling the matter - from the becoming of our chemical knowledge ; Stuttgart, Franckh, 1962 (As a counterpart to Werner Braunbeck's departure into the limitless - On the development of our physical knowledge )
  • History of analytical chemistry with Ferenc Szabadvary, Budapest, Akad. Kiadó, 1966
  • Editor of Paul Walden's autobiography
  • Oriens-Occidens: selected writings on the history of science and culture ; with Willy Hartner,
  • Book and Science: Examples from the History of Medicine ; with Eberhard Schmauderer; Driburg Circle

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book and Science: Examples from the History of Medicine, Natural Science and Technology; [Günther Kerstein on his 65th birthday on Oct. 11, 1969] / on behalf of the Driburger Kreis ed. by Eberhard Schmauderer.
  2. ↑ Georg Schwedt: Even more experiments with supermarket products: The periodic table as a guide . Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-527-66139-8 , Chapter 1: A Brief History of the Periodic Table of the Elements ( PDF ).
  3. ↑ a b company history of the hameln group ( memento from September 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Schneider: Apothecary autographs of my collection . Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft MBH, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 978-3-8047-1123-5 , p. 25 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Who's who in Germany 1990, part 1- page 911.
  6. ^ Gabriele Huhle-Kreutzer: Sources and studies on the history of pharmacy , volumes 51–52; P. 323.
  7. ↑ About us ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from Siegfried Hameln, accessed on February 18, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hameln-pharma.de
  8. ↑ for which there is unfortunately no evidence on their website .

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personal data
SURNAME Kerstein, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kerstein, Günther Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist and chemical historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1979
Place of death Hamelin