Karl Gustav Mitscherlich

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Karl Gustav Mitscherlich

Karl Gustav Mitscherlich (born November 9, 1805 in Neuende ; † March 19, 1871 in Berlin ) was a German pharmacologist and university professor.

Life

origin

The Mitscherlich family had been farmers and gardeners in the area of Schandau , Chemnitz and Pirna in Saxon Switzerland since the end of the 16th century . In the middle of the 18th century, Johann Christoph Mitscherlich emigrated to Jever . His son, the Protestant pastor Karl Gustav Mitscherlich (1762–1826), married Maria Elisabeth Eden (1766–1812) in 1788, the daughter of the Jever art dealer and city treasurer Eilhard Eden. The couple had three children. Karl Gustav Mitscherlich was the youngest, his older brother was later the chemist Eilhard Mitscherlich .

Act

Karl Gustav Mitscherlich was born on 1805 in the second parsonage on so-called Walk of the Dead in the time to rule Jever belonging parish born Neuende and visited the einklassige parish school in Neuende, the community of his father from 1790 to 1826. He then went on to the Latin School provincial school in 20 Kilometers away from Jever , where he passed his Abitur in 1824.

Apparently Mitscherlich then first enrolled at the Georg-August University of Göttingen for medicine one. The classical philologist Christoph Wilhelm Mitscherlich from the Saxon family branch was rector of the University of Göttingen in those years . Coming from the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , he founded the Corps Oldenburgia there in 1825. In 1825 he apparently moved to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . There he was introduced to chemistry , which was developing rapidly at the time, under the direction of his brother Eilhard . At that time he wrote his first publications on antimony and mercury compounds as a student . His results were published in Johann Christian Poggendorffs Annalen der Physik und Chemie in 1827 . Encouraged by these successes, Mitscherlich then shifted his main focus of study to the neighboring field of pharmacy and received his doctorate in 1829 with a study of mercury compounds and their use as pharmaceuticals .

In 1830 he first settled in Berlin as a doctor. He completed his habilitation at the Charité in 1834 and became a private lecturer . Since 1842 associate professor , two years later he was appointed full professor and in 1844 he was appointed to the Berlin chair for pharmacology .

Through his work in pharmacy, Mitscherlich made a contribution to the reorganization of the German pharmacist training from the previous empiricist with the individual manufacture of medicinal products on a plant-animal basis to the pharmaceutical analyst who, through thorough scientific training, gained precise knowledge of the chemical combination options of the various medicinal substances and their therapeutic options Had to acquire effects. With this and a series of his own experimental work, he supported the development of pharmacology . Mitscherlich was also one of the first to take the view that the effects of drugs must be examined in the animal body before they can be used in humans.

Works (selection)

  • Textbook of Drug Science, 2 Vols. 1837–46. 2nd edition: 1847–1861.
  • About the action of copper and its compounds on the animal organism. Berlin. 1841.
  • About the action of ammonia and its salts on the animal organism. Berlin. 1841.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Peter Haupt: Mitscherlich, Eilhard . In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg. Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 467f. ( online ).
  2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 81/1
personal data
SURNAME Mitscherlich, Karl Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH New end
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1871
Place of death Berlin