Johannes Wilhelm May

Johannes Wilhelm Mai (born August 13, 1759 in Heidelberg ; † April 5, 1827 there ) was a German pharmacist .

Life

Johannes Wilhelm Mai was born as the son of the Italian electoral chimney sweep Maggio and the younger brother of the doctor Franz Anton Mai . Around 1783 he worked as a pharmacist in Paris . Little is known about Corn's childhood and education.

In 1788 he received his license to practice medicine in Mannheim . Then he took over a pharmacy in Ladenburg . He later worked as a valet for the first wife of Elector Carl-Theodor . He then studied chemistry from 1794 at the " Jardin royal " in Paris . A year later he returned to Heidelberg and opened a pharmacy. At the instigation of his brother and professor of medicine Franz Anton Mai, he became associate professor for pharmacy and experimental chemistry at the medical faculty of Heidelberg University . After the death of Georg Adolph Suckow in 1813, Mai asked for an appointment to his chair. However, the Senate of Heidelberg University could not make up its mind because Mai lacked the necessary knowledge of Latin and had not written a scholarly work.

In 1797 Mai built a bathing establishment in which various therapeutic baths were offered. In 1800 he was granted the privilege to run the university pharmacy in Heidelberg, which he then built. In the laboratory of this pharmacy, Mai gave lectures on experimental chemistry for doctors and pharmacists. Mai retired in 1822. He previously worked as a university chemist for some time.

literature

• Wolfgang-Hagen Hein, Holm-Dietmar Schwarz: German Pharmacist Biography Supplementary Volume II , p. 198

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eberhard Stübler: History of the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg 1386-1925 , Carl Winters University Bookstore Heidelberg 1926, pp. 180 + 181.