Johann Maximilian Alexander Probst

Johann Maximilian Alexander Probst (born March 12, 1812 in Sickingen , Grand Duchy of Baden , † February 15, 1842 in Heidelberg ) was a German pharmacist .

Life

Probst went to the Latin school in Karlsruhe . At the age of 16 he began his apprenticeship as an assistant in Lauffen am Neckar in 1828 . A year and a half later he passed the assistant examination.

He then worked as an assistant in Stuttgart and Aschaffenburg . From 1832 to 1833 he studied pharmacy at the University of Heidelberg . After the first semester he got the pharmacist license in Karlsruhe. Probst went on a scientific educational trip to Tyrol , Salzburg , Styria and Vienna . There he became a visiting student at the university and the polytechnic school for a year. Afterwards he continued his journey, visiting the mining towns of Hungary and Galicia and going to Silesia , Saxony and Berlin . After three quarters of a guest study in Berlin, he traveled back via the Baltic Sea , Hamburg , Hanover , Göttingen , Marburg and Gießen .

In 1836 he completed his habilitation in pharmacy and chemistry and was finally admitted as a private lecturer. Five years later he was appointed professor of pharmacy and opened a private pharmaceutical institute. He also worked as a general pharmacy visitor for the Lower Rhine District in Baden.

Probst was an employee at the Baden Pharmacopoeia. He examined the Chelidonium and Glaucium . He also found the alkaloid glaucopicrin and glaucin, as well as fumaric acid .

Works

• Probst, Johann Maximilian Alexander: The Zaisenhauser sulfur springs: described in historical, geognostic and chemical terms . , Heidelberg: Oßwald 1836
• The pharmacist tax system, illuminated by a criticism of the German Pharmacy Institute based on statistical evidence , Heidelberg 1838
• Description and method of representation of some of the substances newly discovered during the analysis of Chelidonium majus . In: Annalen der Pharmacie , Volume XXIX (1839), pp. 113-131 (digitized version )
• Description and representation of some peculiar substances found during the investigation of the Glaucium luteum, as a material contribution to a comparative analysis of the Papaveraceae . In: Annalen der Pharmacie , Volume XXXI (1839), pp. 241-258 (digitized version )
• Illumination of the relationship between the German pharmacies and the state, legislation and doctors , Heidelberg 1841.

literature

• Wolfgang-Hagen Hein, Holm-Dietmar Schwarz: German Pharmacist Biography Volume II MZ