Herbert Oelschläger
Herbert Oelschläger (born May 18, 1921 in Bremen ; † June 2, 2006 ) was a German pharmacist.
Life
Oelschläger was born into a Bremen merchant family. After the Reich Labor Service , he began studying chemistry and physics at the Clausthal mining academy . He had to interrupt his training in 1940 when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . During the war he served as an officer in the anti-aircraft artillery , until he in British prisoner of war came. After returning home, he practiced in a pharmacy in Bremen and then began studying pharmacy at the University of Hamburg . In 1949 he received his license to practice medicine. In 1952, under the supervision of Karl Kindler, he wrote his dissertation on new bactericidal phenol derivatives. In 1957 he completed his habilitation with a paper on new amidines and a new class of amino ethers with local anesthetic effects .
Oelschläger then took over the provisional management of the Hamburg Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry for two years , but then went to Prague and worked in the team of Nobel Prize winner Jaroslav Heyrovský on electroanalytical methods. Finally, in 1963, he was appointed to the University of Frankfurt , where he was initially appointed as an associate professor for pharmaceutical chemistry before he was appointed director of the University's Pharmaceutical Institute in 1965 as the successor to Carl Rohmann (1897–1966). Scientifically, he continued to work on the development of local anesthetics; the fomocaine he developed was marketed since 1967. In the analytical field he introduced the technique of polarography .
Oelschläger, who was also active in university politics, remained Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in Frankfurt until his retirement in 1989. After reunification he built at the university in Jena to the Institute of Pharmacy.
Oelschläger was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Chamber of Pharmacists , Chairman of the Academy for Pharmaceutical Training of the State Chamber of Pharmacists of Hesse and President of the German Pharmaceutical Society . He was a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz . In 2003 Oelschläger became a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Diagenics SE.
Honors
- Honorary doctorate from the universities of Jena, Budapest, Regensburg and Bratislava
- 1981: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 2003 - Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia
literature
- Ernst Mutschler , Georg Schneider, Henning Blume, Theo Dingermann : Herbert Oelschläger. (Obituary). Uni-Report Frankfurt, 05/2006, p. 18 ( PDF, 1.8 MB (archived) ( Memento from July 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ))
- Axel Helmstädter: A pharmacist as an enemy of the AStA . Research Frankfurt 1/2014, pp. 141–143
Web links
- Literature by and about Herbert Oelschläger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Herbert Oelschläger - a researcher's life . Abridged version of the lecture by Prof. Dr. Christian R. Noe on July 23, 2000 on the occasion of the award of an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena to Prof. Dr. Herbert Oelschläger in the Deutsche Apothekerzeitung , issue 51/2000.
Individual evidence
- ^ Professor Herbert Oelschläger. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oelschläger, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmaceutical chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 2006 |