Heinrich Beckurts

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Heinrich August Beckurts
Oil painting by Fedor Encke

Heinrich Beckurts (born August 23, 1855 in Braunschweig , † September 15, 1929 in Bargteheide ) was a German pharmacist , chemist and university professor .

Life

Heinrich Beckurts was born in Braunschweig in 1855 as the son of an Oberpackhof commissioner. After visiting the Martino-Katharineum in Braunschweig , he completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in the Hagenmarkt pharmacy from 1871 to 1873 . then he worked for a year as a pharmacy assistant until he began his studies in 1874. Beckurts studied pharmacy and chemistry at the Braunschweig Polytechnic and at the University of Greifswald . In Braunschweig he became a member of the Corps Hercynia . In 1875 he passed the pharmaceutical state examination. In 1876 he was at the University of Jena to the Dr. phil. PhD. From 1877 he worked as an assistant at the Technical University of Braunschweig, where he completed his habilitation in 1880 on the subject of "Knowledge of the carbonates of magnesium" and was finally appointed full professor for pharmaceutical and applied chemistry in 1886. In 1888 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . Beckurts headed the Pharmaceutical Institute since 1899. In the same year he was given the title of Medical Councilor and in 1902 he became a Secret Medical Councilor . From 1900 to 1904 and 1912 to 1914 he was rector of the TH Braunschweig. He received an honorary doctorate from the TH Dresden in 1923 . In the year of his retirement, 1925, he was made an honorary senator of the TH Braunschweig. Beckurts' reputation attracted numerous pharmaceutical students from abroad to Braunschweig.

Scientific achievement

Beckurts worked in the fields of analytics , food chemistry , alkaloid chemistry and toxicology . He developed numerous methods for drug testing that have found their way into the German Pharmacopoeia . He campaigned for scientific pharmacist training and authored several widely used pharmaceutical textbooks.

Literary effect

He was acquainted with Wilhelm Raabe , with whom he met in the sociable association of “ clothing sellers ”. Beckurts was an expert in a dispute between two millers and the Rautheimer sugar factory, which caused the waters to " overturn " by discharging sewage into the Mittelriede and the Schunter , which affected the mill operations. The discharges were verified analytically by Beckurts. This inspired Raabe to write his 1883/84 novel “ Pfisters Mühle ”, in which Beckurts finds himself as a literary figure.

A street in the Braunschweig Chancellor's Field is named after Beckurts .

Works

  • Handbook of Practical Pharmacy. Enke, Stuttgart 1887, 1889. (Volume 1–2) Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf.
  • Analytical chemistry for pharmacists: with 80 woodcuts a. 2 plate. 1896 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf .
  • Basics of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. 1912.
  • German Pharmacopoeia / Introduction to the German Pharmacopoeia. 1927.
  • Chemical internship for pharmacists. Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1927, also third, completely revised edition of Analytical Chemistry for Pharmacists.
  • The methods of mass analysis. Braunschweig, Vieweg, 1910–13, Simultaneously 8th completely revised edition of Fr. Mohr's textbook on the chemical-analytical titration method.
  • Annual reports of pharmacy. (Editor), 1881-1926.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address list of the Weinheimer SC. 1928, p. 48.
personal data
SURNAME Beckurts, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beckurts, Heinrich August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1929
Place of death Bargteheide