Josef Moeller

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Josef Moeller, 1916

Josef Moeller (born March 21, 1848 in Pápa (Kom. Veszprém , Hungary); † October 4, 1924 in Graz ) was a doctor , pharmacognostic and professor .

Life

Moeller came to Vienna with his parents as a child. After attending school, he began to study medicine at the medical faculty of the University of Vienna , which he completed in 1873 with a doctorate in medicine.

Scientific career

Moeller was from 1874 to 1876 assistant at the Pharmacological Institute with August Emil von Vogl (1833-1909), whose most important student he was in the field of the microscopic examination of herbal medicinal drugs and food. Through the joint work in this sub-area of ​​medicine theory, Austria became a leader in the field of pharmacognosy (drug science, a sub-area of pharmacy and pharmaceutical biology ). Moeller dealt with applied plant anatomy on the broadest basis as an organic commodity. including the technical raw materials.

In 1876 he was a teacher at the commercial academy and from 1877 as a private lecturer at the Technical University in Vienna , 1876–86 as an adjunct at the Mariabrunn Forest Research Institute , from 1884 at the same time as a private lecturer . for pharmacognosy at the medical faculty of the University of Vienna. In 1879 he took over the editing of the "Neue Freie Presse" (which later became Die Presse ), a scientific journal popular among laypeople. He decidedly rejected the combination of pharmacology and pharmacognosy teaching, which is common at Austrian universities , but had to represent both subjects as full professor at the Universities of Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (1886-1893) and Graz (1893-1908). In 1908 he was appointed full professor of pharmacognosy at the University of Vienna and first chairman of the Pharmacognostic Institute of the University of Vienna, which had become independent in 1904 .

Together with the pharmacist Ewald Albert Geissler (1848–1898), Moeller succeeded in recruiting several professors from the medical faculty to work on the ten-volume Real Encyclopedia of the entire pharmacy , including Julius Kratter (1848–1926) for the subject area of hygiene , Wilhelm Franz Loebisch (1839–1912) for applied medicinal chemistry and Moritz Loewit (1851–1918) for contributions to pathology . Over time, the work grew to a staff of almost a hundred authors who set standards. These included Heinrich Beckurts (1855–1929), Albert Hilger (1839–1905) and Alexander Tschirch (1856–1939). For the first time, a pharmaceutical lexicon presented pharmacy as an emancipated, professionally networked, transdisciplinary science.

In 1916 he retired for health reasons.

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • Comparative anatomy of wood, 1874
  • Comparative anatomy of tree bark, 1882
  • Microscopy of Food and Beverage from the Plant Kingdom, 1885, 3rd ed., Arr. by C. Griebel, 1928
  • Real Encyclopedia of the Entire Pharmacy. Concise dictionary for pharmacists, doctors and medicinal officials. Edited by Josef Moeller and Ewald Geissler, Vienna: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 10 volumes. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf , 1886
  • Pharmacognosy text-book, 1889
  • Pharmacognostics. Atlas, 1892
  • Textbook of Drug Science, 1893
  • Guide to Microscopic Pharmacognostic Exercises, 1901
  • Materia medica in Austria, in: Festschrift for AE Vogl, 1904. Ed .: Real-Encyclopedie der Gesamt Pharmacie, together with E. Geißler, 1886–91, 2nd edition, together with H. Thoms, 1904–12
  • J. Wiesner, Raw Materials of the Plant Kingdom, together with N. Bamberger, 3rd edition 1914-18.

literature

  • Microscopy of food and beverages from the plant kingdom , Berlin: Julius Springer, 1928, 3., neubearb. Ed. / By C. Griebel

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Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The faculty of the medical faculty of the University of Vienna, Vienna 1908-1910 . Photo credits: Collections of the Medical University of Vienna - Josephinum, picture archive; Associated personal identification .