Johann Andreas Buchner

Johann Andreas Buchner (born April 6, 1783 in Munich ; † June 5, 1852 ibid) was a German pharmacologist in the field of alkaloids .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1802 at the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich, Buchner learned the pharmaceutical profession in 1805 in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm and later with Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff in Erfurt . After receiving his doctorate in philosophy in 1807, he left Erfurt and returned to Munich. There he became chief pharmacist at the Central Foundation Pharmacy for the Hospitals in Munich in 1809 . He later became an assessor on the Medical Committee. In 1818 he became an adjunct and in 1827 an extraordinary member, in 1844 a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Munich. The University of Landshut appointed him extraordinary professor in 1818. This university was moved to Munich in 1826 and Buchner also moved to his old hometown. He lived and worked in Munich until his death. In 1820 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Since 1844 he was a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

His son Ludwig Andreas Buchner (1813-1897) was also a pharmacologist.

tomb

The grave of Johann Andreas Buchner is located in the old southern cemetery in Munich (grave field 29 - row 1 - place 19).

plant

As early as 1809, Buchner discovered paraffin in Tegernsee petroleum .

In 1828 Buchner isolated salicin , a β-glucoside with the aglycon saligenin ( salicyl alcohol ), which has an effect comparable to acetylsalicylic acid ( aspirin ) in the human body from the willow bark . He received salicin in a small amount of needle-shaped, yellow, bitter-tasting crystals and named it after the Latin salix for willow.

Buchner discovered solanine in potatoes , nicotine in tobacco seeds, berberine in berberis roots and aesculin in oak bark.

Complete epitome of pharmacy in its foundations and practical parts: a handbook for doctors and pharmacists . Schrag, Nuremberg 1822.
Pharmacopoea Borussica or Prussian Pharmacopoeia . with Carl Wilhelm Juch and W. Raab , Stein, Nuremberg 4th edition / by W. Raab 1830 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

Quotes

"The history of pharmacy is so closely interwoven with that of medicine and the natural sciences, especially chemistry, that it is hardly possible to present them separately." (1827)

literature

Buchner, Johann Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 487.
Günter Kallinich: Buchner, Johannes Andreas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 706 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vols., Munich 1970-1976 .; Vol. 3, p. 219.
^ Member entry by Johann Andreas Buchner at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on December 20, 2016.
↑ Wolfram Wendler, dissertation: Academic teaching in pharmacy around the middle of the 19th century, shown in the transcript of a lecture by Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Wackenroder from 1845 , 2004.

Web links

Works by and about Johann Andreas Buchner in the German Digital Library

personal data
SURNAME	Buchner, Johann Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pharmacologist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 6, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	June 5, 1852
Place of death	Munich

[1] Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , 4 vols., Munich 1970-1976 .; Vol. 3, p. 219.

[2] Member entry by Johann Andreas Buchner at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on December 20, 2016.

[diss-3] Wolfram Wendler, dissertation: Academic teaching in pharmacy around the middle of the 19th century, shown in the transcript of a lecture by Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Wackenroder from 1845 , 2004.