Georg Arends (Pharmacist)

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Georg Arends (born December 18, 1862 in Chemnitz ; † December 23, 1946 there ) was a German pharmacist and pharmaceutical writer.

Life

He was the son of the Chemnitz businessman Emil Arends. After attending secondary school in Dresden , he successfully completed his apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Meißen in 1879 . Then he went to study at the University of Leipzig , where he passed the state examination in 1887. From 1889 he worked as a chemist in a Leipzig factory.

In 1895 Georg Arends became the scientific editor of the Pharmazeutische Zeitung in Berlin. He held this office until 1908. In the years that followed, when he headed the Elisabeth pharmacy he founded in Chemnitz in 1908, he presented several publications on pharmaceutical topics. In 1937 he retired and died a year after the end of the Second World War.

He held the title of medical councilor .

family

In 1892 Georg Arends married Elissabeth Heyner from Leipzig. The marriage resulted in their son Johannes (* 1894) and daughter Marie (* 1896). The son of Johannes Arends followed in his father's footsteps. Together they published the work The Tablet Factory and its Mechanical Aids in the 1930s .

Publications (selection)

  • Dictionary of synonyms. A collection of the most common synonymous terms. A manual and reference book for pharmacists, chemists, druggists and the like. A. , Leipzig, 1891.
  • (with Anrold Rathje): New medicines and pharmaceutical specialties including the new drugs, organ and serum preparations, with numerous regulations on substitutes and an explanation of the most common medical terms , Berlin, 1913.
  • Specialties and secret drugs. From the fields of medicine, technology, cosmetics and the food industry, their origin and composition , 7th edition, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1919.
  • Popular use of indigenous medicinal plants. 2nd Edition. Berlin 1925.
  • (with Johannes Arendes): The tablet factory and its mechanical aids , 4th edition, Berlin, 1938.
  • (with H. Zörnig and Georg Frerichs): Hager's handbook of pharmaceutical practice. For pharmacists, drug manufacturers, druggists, doctors and medical officials , Volume 1: A – I, Berlin, 1938.
  • (with H. Zörnig and Georg Frerichs): Hager's handbook of pharmaceutical practice. For pharmacists, drug manufacturers, druggists, doctors and medical officials , Volume 1: K – Z, Berlin, 1938.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Message from the son Johannes Arends in the foreword of the 13th edition of Popular Names of Medicines, Drugs, Medicinal Herbs and Chemicals. Heidelberg / New York (16th edition 1971).
personal data
SURNAME Arends, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist and pharmaceutical writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1946
Place of death Chemnitz