Hermann Schelenz

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Grave of Hermann Schelenz in the Wehlheiden cemetery in Kassel

Hermann Emil Schelenz (born April 9, 1848 in Kempen , Posen Province , † September 28, 1922 in Kassel ) was a German pharmacist , industrialist and pioneer in the field of pharmaceutical history .

Life

Schelenz began training as a pharmacist after he was unable to study medicine for financial reasons. In 1868 he passed the assistant examination in Opole and then worked in Johannes Lehmann's old town pharmacy in Rendsburg . In 1872 he began studying pharmacy in Greifswald and two years later acquired the old town pharmacy, which he expanded to include a chemical-pharmaceutical product factory, a mail order business and a drug wholesaler and expanded it to become the largest pharmacy in Holstein. In 1893 Schelenz sold the pharmacy. From then on, interested in questions of pharmaceutical history, he worked as a private scholar in Kassel from 1895. After the end of the First World Warhe made a living publishing his publications after losing all of his fortune to inflation .

His main work History of Pharmacy was also written in Kassel in 1904 . A total of 893 journal articles and 871 reviews as well as numerous anonymous contributions go back to Schelenz; the total number of publications is over 2000.

In 1920 the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Others

The Schelenz plaque , which has been awarded since 1929, is awarded to people who have made a name for themselves in the research field of pharmaceutical history. In addition, the Hermann Schelenz Institute for Pharmaceutical and Cultural History founded in Heidelberg in 1998 bears his name.

Publications (selection)

  • Women in the Reiche Aeskulaps , Leipzig 1900, reprint 1975
  • History of Pharmacy , Berlin 1904, reprint Hildesheim 1962 and 1965
  • On the history of the pharmaceutical-chemical stills , Miltitz near Berlin 1911 Digitized edition , reprinted Hildesheim 1964
  • Organotherapy over the millennia. In: Sudhoffs Archiv 4, 1911, pp. 138–156
  • Shakespeare and his knowledge in the fields of medicine and folklore , Leipzig 1914, reprint 1977
  • Secret doctrines. Demonology in Shakespeare. I-III, In: Janus Volume 20, 1915, pp. 155-173; Volume 21, 1916, pp. 1-26; Volume 22, 1917, pp. 1–26 and 239–268 (the end is missing because Schelenz died before completion).

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personal data
SURNAME Schelenz, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schelenz, Hermann Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist, industrialist and pharmacy historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempen , Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1922
Place of death kassel