Jacques Peschier

Jacques Peschier (born July 6, 1769 in Geneva ; † January 7, 1832 there ) was a Swiss pharmacist and chemist .

Career

His parents were the pharmacist Charles-Antoine Peschier (1738-1828) and Jacqueline Laurens. His ancestors came from Bagnols-sur-Cèze in Languedoc around 1700 as Huguenot religious refugees .

He studied philology in Geneva from 1786 and philosophy from 1788. He studied pharmaceuticals and chemistry in Berlin. In 1795 he passed his pharmacy exam in Geneva. In 1796 he married Jeanne-Claire Fazy, the daughter of the Indian manufacturer Jean-Louis Fazy.

In 1817 he took over his father's pharmacy at 15 Grand-Rue in Geneva. He made a fern root extract with which he successfully combated the tapeworm . He discovered aconitic acid , isolated ratanhia tannic acid and titanium , analyzed the mineral springs of Schinznach and Yverdon and examined the effect of the acids on salicin . He repeated the experiment of Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier , in which oxygen was created by glowing mercury lime.

Memberships

• Société d'Histoire naturelle ou Société de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Geneve (SPHN); from 1816
• Société pour l'Encouragement des Arts ou Société des Arts (SA); from 1819
• Société Helvitique des Sciences naturelles (SHSN)
• Société medicale de Geneve (SMG)
• Société de Pharmacie de Paris (SPP)

literature

• Karl-Rudolf Reichenbach: Jacques Peschier (1769-1832). A Geneva pharmacist and chemist. His life and work with special consideration of previously unpublished documents ; Dissertation Greifswald 2001 ( content )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Peschier, Jacques. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
2. ↑ Jacques Peschier. Salicins. Action des acides sur cette substance . In: Journal de chimie médicale, de pharmacie et de toxicologie . Bechet jeune, Paris Volume 6 (1830), pp. 651–655 (digitized version )