Gerda Ritschel-Beurlin

Gerda Ritschel-Beurlin , b. Beurlin (born February 10, 1927 in Ulm , † February 3, 1989 in Cincinnati ) was a German pharmacist.

Life

Gerda Ritschel-Beurlin, daughter of a career officer, attended elementary school in Ulm , then the grammar school in Freudenstadt . After high school she learned in the Moor Pharmacy in Schwabisch Gmund the pharmacy . From 1948 to 1952 she studied pharmacy at the University of Tübingen and passed the pharmaceutical state examination in 1952. From the University of Innsbruck , she received the 1961 Mag. Pharm., From the University of Strasbourg Dr. pharm. and in 1965 from the University of Vienna Dr. phil. PhD.

After Ritschel-Beurlin worked for a short time in the industry, she was appointed Lecturer of Pharmaceutical Microbiology at Notré Dame College, Dacca University in 1961 . Before that, she had worked in various German pharmacies and in Switzerland from 1952 to 1959.

Ritschel-Beurlin worked in Pakistan until 1964 , then moved to the USA in 1969 , where she was initially a Lecturer and Educational Associate at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Cincinnati. In 1972 she was appointed Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Northern Kentucky State University , where she was appointed Associate Professor in 1976. For the last 11 years of her life, she was an additional research associate and faculty member at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy .

Ritschel-Beurlin has published around 40 works, mostly together with her husband, Wolfgang A. Ritschel . She worked in the field of microbiology , drug production, drug testing and control, made microbiological evaluations of tissue samples from Peruvian mummies, and worked on the absorption of peptides. In the early 1960s she took part in two international expeditions to Southeast Asia .

Publications

• Evidence of precipitating antibodies in poliomyelitis immune serums (m. J. Meyer and J. Malgras). In: Rev d'Immun 24 (1960).
• International expedition to St. Martin's Island (with WA Ritschel). In: Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung 102 (1962).
• Press-coated tablets containing tetracycline and vitamins. (with WA Ritschel). In: Sci. Pharm. 31 (1963).
• Rectal administration of Inslin (m. WA Ritschel). In: Meth. Find. Exptl. Clin. Pharmacol. 6 (1984).

literature

• Wolfgang-Hagen Hein, Holm-Dietmar Schwarz (eds.): Deutsche Apotheker-Biographie, supplementary volume 2, Wissenschaftliche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-8047-1565-6 , S. #.