Hermann Gelder

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Hermann Gelder (born January 6, 1866 in Rotenburg ad Fulda ; † March 9, 1947 in Berlin ) was a German pharmacist, pharmacy historian and graphic collector.

Life

Hermann Ludwig Gelder was born as the second of five children to brewery owner Johannes Gelder and his wife Lisette. He started school in the Catholic elementary school in 1872 and attended the secondary school in Rotenburg ad Fulda from 1875 to 1879. He then continued his education at the grammar school in Fulda. One of his classmates and school friends was the future zoologist Ludwig Kathariner , with whom he was particularly connected to fishing. The creation of a herbarium was also part of the recreational activities. Beyond botany, his interests were in heraldry and genealogy . The high school student's brother, the pharmacist Flentje, became the role model for his career aspirations. Gelder left grammar school in 1884 and began his pharmaceutical apprenticeship in the “Old Town Pharmacy” in his hometown. He continued his apprenticeship in the pharmacy in Felsberg , Hesse , and passed the assistant examination in Kassel in 1887. In the following years he worked as an assistant in several pharmacies: in the Neustädter pharmacy in Rotenburg a. F. and the Löwen pharmacy in Münster, Westphalia . He continued to condition as a pharmacist's assistant in the north (East Frisia) as well as in Kremmen in Brandenburg and in Groß Schneen . At the end of his “years of wandering”, Gelder completed a year of military service with the Navy in Kiel. As a sailor on “ SMS Bayern ”, he accompanied the imperial state yacht “ Hohenzollern ” into the Norwegian fjord and coastal landscapes on her second voyage to the north with Wilhelm II on board.

Education

Gelder studied at the Philipps University in Marburg from the winter semester of 1890 to the summer semester of 1892 . He joined there a pharmaceutical-scientific fraternity and was the early 1930s when Old Mr. member of the country team Hasso Guestfalia the corporation Association German Homeland Association . Gelders university lecturers in Marburg included the professors of pharmacy and chemistry Ernst Schmidt, also director of the Pharmaceutical Institute (* 1845–1921) and the botanist Arthur Meyer (* 1850–1922) as well as the physicist and astronomer Franz Melde (* 1832 ; † 1901), whose lives paid tribute to money in 1931 in articles on the history of pharmacy for the Apotheker-Zeitung.

Pharmacist and genologist

After passing the state examination in 1892, Gelder immediately took over the management of the pharmacy in Groß Schneen, Lower Saxony, where he had already worked for some time before studying pharmacy. The purchase he was considering did not materialize. He moved on to several pharmacies, mainly in the cities of Bremen, Hanover, Hanau, Potsdam, Itzehoe and Höchst am Main. When he presented his research results on the family tree of the von Berg family from Urdenbach in 1901 for the "Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families", he managed the "vom Berg'sche Apotheke" in Lägerdorf (Holstein).

Pharmacy owner in Berlin

In 1902 Gelder relocated to Berlin, where he had been providing professional support to the owner of the pharmacy zur Sonne , the pharmacist Carl Baetcke, who had a doctorate. He now worked, inter alia, in what was then Wilmersdorfer Dr. Oehmigen's pharmacy , the Charlottenburger Uhland pharmacy, pharmacy owner Julius Mehler, and the Moabiter Ludwigs pharmacy, owner Rudolf Ludwig. In 1912, Gelder received the license to build a pharmacy in the north of Berlin. Gelder opened his own pharmacy under the name Wichert-Apotheke on May 6, 1913 in an apartment building in what is now the Berlin-Pankow district. There he worked part-time with the history of pharmacy as an author, speaker and collector, especially of small graphics and pharmacist portraits. Hermann Gelder married Magdalena Valeska Julie v. Daughter of the landowner in St. Hedwig zu Berlin on June 4, 1919. Zelewski, who was born in Neustadt West Prussia. Gelder was a co-founder of the Society for the History of Pharmacy on August 18, 1926 and was initially 2nd chairman and, after an amendment to the statutes, deputy chairman of this international society. On June 1, 1933, he took over the Freya pharmacy in Berlin-Schöneberg. The official concession to continue the former Gelderschen Wichert pharmacy was given to the pharmacist Hermann Kaul from Sorau N./L. and reopened it in Berlin's Wichertstrasse on January 7, 1934.

library

Gelder had an extensive collection of books. The main focus of his library was on specialist literature on the pharmacy, including writings from his writing as a pharmacy historian, which he began in Berlin. His standard work "On the history of privileged pharmacies in Berlin" is also quoted many times in more recent publications on former pharmacy owners in Berlin.

bookplate

As proof of ownership for books in his private library, Gelder had bookplates made in small-format private prints. He had the book owner's mark designed by various artists, such as the arts and crafts designer Oskar Julius Roick (* 1870–1926) and the heraldist Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt (* 1844, † 1918). This bookplate is described in detail by pharmacist and collector Bernhard Peter with reference to the source. In addition, the Munich graphic artist and heraldist Lorenz Max Rheude (* 1863; † 1939) designed an ex-libris for Gelder in 1900. Another ex-libris artist who was commissioned by Gelder was the Swiss Alfred Soder (* 1880; † 1957). He designed the bookplate: “Reclining female nude in landscape”. In 1908 another bookplate was added for money. This book ownership mark was designed by the North Bohemian artist and glass painter Heinrich Schimpke, who worked in what was then Tanneberg / Blottendorf. This rich bookplate contained the owner's note: "From the library of Hermann Ludwig Gelder" in Gothic script, the main words of which were decorated with initial letters. Lorenz M. Rheude (* 1863; † 1939) designed another ex-libris for Gelder's specialist books based on an old woodcut by Jost Amman , to which the artist added the Geldersche apothecary's coat of arms and his Latin motto PERSEVERANDO ET SPERANDO . The professional sex libris shows an open shop and the working pharmacists as well as two visitors with dogs. The end of this bookmark is the title: “Hermann Gelder Apotheker belongs to this book”.

Collector

The book sign designer Schimpke-Blottendorf indicated Gelder's passion for collecting and areas of interest on the spine in the bookplate from 1908. The pharmacist had personal preferences for the seal customer, the so-called sphragistics, the sport of fishing and especially for the history of pharmacy. The symbol for the pharmaceutical profession, the Aesculapian staff, was crowned by the Latin motto “Perseverando et sperando”. The bookplate contained the owner's note: “From the library of Hermann Ludwig Gelder” in Gothic script, the nouns of which were decorated with initial letters. Next to an album that can be closed with straps and the label "(ex-) libris" that can be seen on the cover is a seal . A second honor wreath adorns the lower area of ​​the bookplate. It is adorned with the monogram for Hermann Ludwig Gelder and the exclamation mark ("!"). Heinrich Schimpke used the German national flag of the time as the background for the three artistically designed letters. The eye-catcher for the viewer formed the coat of arms of the pharmacist, which the heraldist Schimpke designed as well as Hildebrandt . It showed u. a. One apothecary shovel placed horizontally opposite one another, similar to a pharmacist's spoon. Gelder had a bookplate collection of over 5000 pieces.

Exhibitors

Hermann Gelder was won over by the pharmaceutical historian and editor of the pharmaceutical newspaper Georg Urdang in May 1929 for the design of the exhibition Art and Cultural History from Old Pharmacies on the occasion of the 3rd Annual General Meeting of the “Society for the History of Pharmacy” in order to increase his knowledge of the “history of the privileged pharmacies in Berlin ”. In a newly furnished, bright room of the Berlin City Palace , Gelders connections to private collectors and state museums enabled pharmacy jars - majolica, faience, porcelain, glass vessels such as medicine bottles and screw-top jars - marble and bronze mortars, pictures of old pharmacies, a first-aid kit and apprenticeship and assistant letters to be issued. From the property of the castle museum, two mythical animals with the "magic horn" were made available, the so-called unicorn, which is one of the namesake animals for pharmacies. The exhibitor Gelder showed books and above all pharmacist portraits to the museum visitors, including one of the pictures from the private collection of the former pharmacist and owner of the Berliner Apotheke Zum crowned black eagle Franz August Etzel in the uniform of a Prussian artillery general.

The art historian Martin Klar (1886–1966) - at that time the first assistant of the castle museum under the direction of Robert Schmidt (1878–1953) - had selected only those items for loan from the abundance of collector's items and put them together with pharmaceutical museum holdings that were of art and cultural significance largely because of their uniqueness.

Lecturer

The Society for the History of Pharmacy secured Gelders participation in the board at its founding meeting in Austria in 1926 by transferring the position of 2nd chairman and secretary, in particular because of his extensive knowledge of the history of pharmacy and also because he had received a letter of apology for his absence. In 1929 the society appointed the honorary pharmacy historian temporarily head of the society's archive in Berlin, which he could use to write his writings and lectures.

Ludwig Winkler , in his capacity as chairman of the international society for the history of pharmacy, signed a cooperation agreement on March 1, 1929 with the German Pharmaceutical Society , represented by its chairman, Hermann Thoms , in particular on the creation of a historical pharmaceutical collection and library. In realization of this Agreement was resolved at the Berlin meeting of Society for the History of Pharmacy in early May 1929, previously headed by board member Walter Zimmermann "Central Office" in Illenau moved to Berlin and Hermann funds assumed.

At the historical-scientific meeting as part of the 2nd general meeting of the Society for the History of Pharmacy on May 4, 1929, Gelder gave a seminal lecture in the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus in Berlin-Mitte on the subject: The pharmacists' preoccupation with the history of pharmacy . At the end of the 1920s, however, the pharmacist resigned all of his honorary positions on the company's board of directors for lack of time. For the opening of the pharmacy history library in December 1931, Gelder, as a formerly voluntary archivist, donated a framed, large photograph of the pharmacist and pharmacologist Hans Hermann Julius Hager (* 1816, † 1897) from his private collection , which from then on adorned one wall of the library room in Berlin .

Honor

At the age of 65, Gelder was honored by being elected one of the corresponding members of the GGP at the 3rd General Meeting of the Society for the History of Pharmacy on May 15, 1931 in Vienna. The award took place at the same time as two other pharmaceutical historians, the founder of pharmaceutical antiquity Josef Anton Häflinger (* 1873; † 1954) from Basel and the professor of natural history, mathematics and physics at the Jesuit branch Stella Matutina in Feldkirch / Austria Josef Rompel (* 1867; † 1941).

Golden professional anniversary

On October 10, 1934, Gelder celebrated the 50th anniversary of the day on which he began his apprenticeship as a pharmacist in the old town pharmacy in Rotenburg, Hesse . At the time of his “golden professional anniversary”, Gelder no longer lived in Prenzlauer Berg , but in Schöneberg and there on Nymphenburger Strasse, while the Freya pharmacy he took over was on Hauptstrasse. The Pharmaceutical Newspaper took its anniversary as an opportunity to present Gelder's profession, hobbies and family to the readership based on the autobiography of 1931.

Silver wedding anniversary

On June 4, 1944, Gelder and his wife Magda, née vd Bach-Zelewski, celebrated the silver wedding anniversary. Because of the war-related destruction of his Berlin apartment, the silver wedding ceremony took place on the villa property of his younger brother Otto Gelder in Groß Köris on the Großer Roßkardtsee, where the pharmacist family had temporarily moved. Of his three sons Hans (* 1921), Bodo (* 1924), not even the youngest, Ludwig Gelder (* 1926), could take part in the celebration because they were all at war. Gelder suffered another stroke, which had left him paralyzed. Nevertheless, he continued to devote himself to genealogy and pharmaceutical history work. Even after the war ended in 1945, he remained the owner of the Freyer pharmacy in Berlin-Schöneberg.

Portrait photo

There is a photo of Gelder from the founding time of the Gesellschaft der Geschichte für Pharmazie (GGP), which shows him as a portrait in the side profile together with the other members of the Presidium. In the center of the portrait jewelery sheet, the chairman of the GGP Ludwig Winkler is shown in Austrian military uniform and around him the presidium members are placed in festive civilian clothes in pairs with their names: pharmacist Hermann Gelder, BERLIN, pharmacist W. Zimmermann, Illenau bei Achern (Baden) and pharmacist F. Ferchl , Mittenwald (Upper Bavaria) and editor Georg Urdang , BERLIN. Georg Urdang used the portrait photo of Hermann Gelder for the article of appreciation in the Pharmazeutische Zeitung on the occasion of his golden jubilee in 1934. Gelder himself had his portrait photo printed in 1931 in the publication “Biographie und Schriften”.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Itzehoes pharmacies. A contribution to the history of Schleswig-Holstein pharmacies. Berlin 1908
  • Pharmaceutical bookplate.
  • Michael Aschenbrenner (1549-1605).
  • On the history of the privileged pharmacies in Berlin , Berlin 1925
  • On the history of the (formerly royal) court pharmacy in Berlin. Berlin 1925
  • A Marburg student trial from the 18th century. OCLC 838756224 1928
  • Books and written studies on the history of pharmacy (1928)
  • Display or commemorative coins on pharmacists.
  • Pharmacists' preoccupation with the history of pharmacy (1929)
  • On the history of pharmacies in old Berlin. Berlin 1931.
  • Biography and writings.
  • Directory of genealogical news about pharmacist families.

Web links

Hermann Gelder , commemorative article by GE Dann ; Pharmaceutical Newspaper 84th Volume No. 5 of March 1, 1948, p. 103

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hein, Wolfgang-Hagen / Schwarz, Holm-Dietmar (ed.): Deutsche Apotheker-Biographie , Volume 1: A – L. (Publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy. Volume 43). Stuttgart 1975, p. 197 f. Keyword: "Gelder, Hermann" ISBN 3-8047-0518-9
  2. ↑ Gelder, Hermann L .: Biographie und Schriften , Berlin 1931, (8 p., 1st portrait of the author) p. 4
  3. ↑ "in service" according to JC Heyse's Fremdwörterbuch, Hannover / Leipzig 1903, p. 450
  4. ^ Previously professor at the University of Halle (Saale); Catalogus professorum halensis - CV Ernst Albert Schmidt
  5. ^ Curriculum vitae Meyer, Arthur in the professorial catalog of the Philipps University of Marburg
  6. ^ University archive Marburg; Philosophical Faculty
  7. ^ Then, GE / Gelder, H./Adlung: Excellent pharmacists of the 19th century , in Apotheker-Zeitung 1931 No. 52, p. 821 (Marburg II) and No. 53, p. 837 (Marburg III)
  8. ^ Genealogical handbook of middle-class families . Edited by Bernhard Koerner with drawings by Prof. Ad. M. Hildebrandt, Berlin 1901, vol. 8, p. 8 ff. In connection with p. 583 (category: sender)
  9. ^ Chemical dissertation at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau DNB portal 1879 and chairman of the Berlin Pharmacists' Association from 1892 to 1901; Hermann Gelder: From the older history of the Berlin Pharmacists' Association . In: Apotheker Zeitung. Organ of the German Pharmacists' Association. 40th year. No. 8 of January 28, 1928 pp. (80-81) 81.
  10. ^ Wichertstrasse 66 / corner of Greifenhagener Strasse in what was then the Berlin post office district N 113.
  11. ^ Adlung, A., Urdang, G .: Outline of the history of German pharmacy . Berlin 1935, p. 407; [Digital reprint] ISBN 978-3-642-52555-1
  12. ^ Standesamt Berlin 10c Heiraten 1919 No. 600: Berlin Marriage Register .
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  15. ^ For example, von Schwedt, Georg : Vom Harz nach Berlin Martin Heinrich Klaproth , Norderstedt 2016, p. 39; ISBN 978-3-8370-4507-9
  16. ↑ Drawn and signed by Hildebrandt-Berlin in the book owner's mark on the lower right. 1899; Retrieved online January 23, 2018.
  17. ↑ Peter, Bernhard: Heraldry, coat of arms, bookplate . Bookplate by A. Hildebrandt
  18. ↑ Object database of the "Leipzig City History Museum", inventory number: Exlibris Sh 65
  19. ↑ Now: Jedličná, a Czech village, today part of Polevsko (German Blottendorf)
  20. ↑ Illustration in: Zimmermann, Walther Exlibris (book owner's mark) Deutscher Apotheker . Reprint of the 1925 edition, p. 44; ISBN 978-3-500-24810-3
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  22. ↑ Figure Retrieved January 25, 2018
  23. ↑ Illustration: Collection Pratt Institute Ex Libris , Ident-No. sc00853
  24. ↑ As much as "Endure and hope!"
  25. ↑ Zimmermann, Walther : Exlibris deutscher Apotheker , Stuttgart 1925, p. 43.
  26. ^ Photo: Central Archives of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage; Identification number. ZA 2.7./09713; General view of the exhibition space
  27. ^ Photo in the central archive of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian cultural property; Photo collection, ID no. ZA 2.7./09715: Cupboard with mortars, glass vessels and other objects
  28. ^ Photo in the central archive of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian cultural property; Identification number. ZA 2.7./09717: Cupboard with Spanish and Italian faiences and unicorns (narwhal teeth)
  29. ↑ Süddeutsche Apothekerzeitung , Volume 69, No. 35, Stuttgart, April 30, 1929, p. 252 f.
  30. ^ Gelder, Hermann: On the history of the privileged pharmacies in Berlin , Julius Springer publishing house, Berlin 1925, p. 17
  31. ^ Photo in the central archive of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian cultural property; Identification number. ZA 2.7./09718: Portraits of pharmacists from the Gelder collection
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  33. ↑ Illustration of the exhibits at SMB-digital; Quick search for all collections, input: Art and cultural history from old pharmacies
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  38. ^ Hermann Gelder-Berlin, golden professional jubilee of GU In: Pharmazeutische Zeitung, 79th year No. 87/1934, p. 1102
  39. ↑ Pharmazeutische Zeitung, Volume 76, No. 99/1931, p. 1390
  40. ↑ Meyer, Klaus: The honors of the Society for the History of Pharmacy (founded in 1926) and its successor companies International / German / Society for the History of Pharmacy (IGGP / DGGP) . In: Geschichte der Pharmazie 60th Volume No. 4 December 2008, pp. (66–74) 68.
  41. ↑ Apotheker-Zeitung No. 40 of May 20, 1931, p. 638.
  42. ^ Hermann Gelder-Berlin, golden professional jubilee of GU In: Pharmazeutische Zeitung , 79th year No. 87, p. 1104; Publication server Technische Universität Braunschweig
  43. ↑ Deutsche Apotheker-Zeitung of July 4, 1944, p. 207 Rubric: Kleine Nachrichten, Column 2: Silver Wedding
  44. ^ Gelder, Hermann L .: Biography and Writings , p. 5.
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  46. ^ Official directory of telephone subscribers in Berlin . Published by the City of Berlin's Magistrate, Post and Telecommunications Department; P. 105
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  51. ↑ Communications of the Association for the History of Berlin , Edition 42, 1925 No. 1–3, p. 52 f .; With a correction note as a footnote: Leonhard Thurneysser instead of “Neumeister” in the original.
  52. ↑ Extended special print from the Pharmazeutische Zeitung 1925, No. 8, 29 and 30. With 2 gravestones and 10 drawings of the coat of arms by Professor Oskar Roick ; Facsimile with an introduction by Manfred Stürzbecher .
  53. ^ In: Pharmazeutische Zeitung, 73rd year, p. 531 f., P. 724 f. and pp. 1157-1160
  54. ↑ In honor of Cyriakus Schnauss (* 1512, † 1571) in Coburg and Burkhard Reber (* 1848, † 1926) in Geneva. In: Apotheker Zeitung. Volume 44 No. 98 of December 7, 1929 p. 1527 f.
  55. ^ In: Pharmazeutische Zeitung 74th year, pp. 619-621
  56. ↑ Date of publication: 1931; Berlin N 113, Wichertstrasse. 66
  57. ↑ With own article information of the author H. Gelder. In: Süddeutsche Apotheker-Zeitung. Volume 72, No. 52 1932 from July 1, 1932 p. 355 f.
personal data
SURNAME Gelder, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gelder, H .; Gelder, Hermann Ludwig; Gelder, Hermann L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotenburg on the Fulda
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1947
Place of death Berlin