Georg Kerner

Georg Kerner (born April 9, 1835 in Besigheim , † February 9, 1890 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German pharmacist with special knowledge of chinology .

Life

Georg Kerner joined his father's pharmacy in Besigheim as an apprentice in 1849 and worked as an assistant in Basel , St. Gallen and Geneva from 1852 . His years in Switzerland sparked his interest in botanical and medical-physiological studies. In 1855 he went to Wiesbaden to work for Karl Remigius Fresenius and soon to be appointed by him as an assistant.

Two years later he received his doctorate in Göttingen with a dissertation on guanidine Dr. phil. and joined the quinine factory Zimmer & Co in Frankfurt am Main as a chemist . He worked in this company for over 30 years in an ever increasing position and was most recently director.

Kerner earned special merits in the field of Chinology, the heyday of which was in the second half of the 19th century. He dealt with various physiological work on quinine resorption and with numerous series of tests on the purity of quinine sulfate . In 1862 he published Kerner's ammonia sample, named after him, for the first time to determine the secondary alkaloids in quinine sulfate and then refined it in two further publications in 1880. This detection method was included in the German Pharmacopoeia in a modified form . In 1883 Georg Kerner was elected President of the Quinine Manufacturers' Convention, which was founded that year .

Works

• About the testing of the commercially available quinine sulfuric acid for foreign china alkaloids. In: Arch. Pharmaz. 216 (1880), pp. 186-205; 217 (1880), pp. 438-454

literature

• Wolfgang-Hagen Hein, Holm-Dietmar Schwarz (1975): German Pharmacist Biography Volume I, page 317, scientific publishing company mbH, Stuttgart