Georg Dragendorff

Johann Georg Noël Dragendorff (born April 20, 1836 in Rostock ; † April 7, 1898 ibid) was a German chemist, pharmacist and pharmacy historian in Dorpat .

Life

Georg Dragendorff was the son of Rostock private lecturer and domain physician Ludwig Dragendorff (1811-1856). He studied in his hometown under Franz Ferdinand Schulze. In 1856 he became a member of the Corps Obotritia. In 1861 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . As early as 1864 he was appointed full professor of pharmacy at the University of Dorpat , where he worked for 30 years. In 1872 he published his findings on the Dragendorff reagent . For political reasons he was compelled to say goodbye in 1894. He retired to Rostock and stayed there scientifically. His main work Medicinal Plants only appeared posthumously . Ernst Dragendorff , Hans Dragendorff and Otto Dragendorff were his sons.

Fonts

Dragendorff's grave in the old cemetery Rostock (today Lindenpark)

Contributions to forensic chemistry. St. Petersburg 1871
The forensic chemical determination of poisons in food, air mixtures, leftovers, body parts, etc. 1st edition H. Schmitzdorff, St. Petersburg 1868; 2nd edition ibid. 1876; 3rd and 4th edition Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1888 and 1895 respectively
The qualitative and quantitative analysis of plants and plant parts: With imprinted woodcuts and a lithograph. Blackboard. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1882. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
The medicinal plants of different peoples and times. Its application, essential components and history. A manual for doctors, pharmacists, botanists and druggists. Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1898; Reprint Werner Fritsch, Munich 1967 (reprographic reprint Munich 1968)

Honors

Honorary doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (1872)

literature

Wilhelm Katner: Dragendorff, Johann Georg Noël. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 99 ( digitized version ).
Ursula Kokoska: Johann Georg Noel Dragendorff (April 20, 1836 - April 7, 1898). His contribution to forensic medicine, pharmacology and pharmacy at Dorpat University. (Inaugural dissertation at the Free University of Berlin; Berlin 1983)
Julius Pagel : Dragendorff, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 69 f.
Hendrik Randow: A contribution to the biography of Georg Dragendorff (1836-1898). His life and work for pharmaceutical research and teaching. (In: Mecklenburg personalities and their contributions to scientific and technical progress in history. Issue 13 of the Rostocker Wissenschaftshistorische Manuskripte series, edited by the History Section of the Wilhelm Pieck University Rostock, Rostock 1986, pp. 42–47)
Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2236 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ The information follows the gravestone inscription as well as the New German Biography (1959) and other more recent literature. The Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1904) gives his date of birth differently (apparently incorrectly) as April 8, 1836.
^ Bernhard Lepsius : Schulze, Franz Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, pp. 749-751 .; Georg Dragendorff cannot be found in the Rostock matriculation portal .
↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 183/19
↑ Dissertation: Investigation of the effect of phosphorus on some carbonic and boric acid salts.
^ Georg Dragendorff: Contributions to the judicial chemistry of individual organic poisons . Investigations from the Pharmaceutical Institute in Dorpat. 1st edition. Verlag der Kaiserliche Hofbuchhandlung Heinrich Schmitzdorff (Karl Röttger), Saint Petersburg 1872 ( limited preview in Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Dragendorff, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dragendorff, Johann Georg Noël (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German chemist and professor of pharmacy in Dorpat
DATE OF BIRTH	April 20, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rostock
DATE OF DEATH	April 7, 1898
Place of death	Rostock

[1] The information follows the gravestone inscription as well as the New German Biography (1959) and other more recent literature. The Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (1904) gives his date of birth differently (apparently incorrectly) as April 8, 1836.

[2] Bernhard Lepsius : Schulze, Franz Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, pp. 749-751 .; Georg Dragendorff cannot be found in the Rostock matriculation portal .

[3] Kösener corps lists 1910, 183/19

[4] Dissertation: Investigation of the effect of phosphorus on some carbonic and boric acid salts.

[5] Georg Dragendorff: Contributions to the judicial chemistry of individual organic poisons . Investigations from the Pharmaceutical Institute in Dorpat. 1st edition. Verlag der Kaiserliche Hofbuchhandlung Heinrich Schmitzdorff (Karl Röttger), Saint Petersburg 1872 ( limited preview in Google book search).