Kasimir Nienhaus

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Kasimir Nienhaus-Meinau (born March 5, 1838 in Stadtlohn ; † November 29, 1910 in Basel ) was a German-Swiss lecturer in pharmacognosy and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Basel , pharmacist and a pioneer in water protection .

Life

Kasimir Nienhaus-Meinau (1838–1910), pharmacist, lecturer in pharmacognosy and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Basel. Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel
Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery , Basel

Nienhaus trained as a pharmacist and ran pharmacies in Blankenstein and Elberfeld from 1863 to 1874 . In 1874 he went to Zurich to study chemistry at the Zurich Polytechnic . He briefly ran an albumin factory in Neuss and then settled in Basel, where he took over the Löwen pharmacy in 1877.

After the development of the textile industry in the border triangle triggered the development of the chemical paint industry in the Basel area, there were immediate complaints about the pollution of the Rhine and its tributaries. River fish were an important food and fishing was an important industry. As early as 1877 there were complaints from the Baden communities of Kirchen , Märkt and Istein about water pollution in the Rhine . In 1883, the Swiss federal authorities commissioned Nienhaus to investigate the waters. The report he produced was also based on experiments with live animals and showed the severe pollution of water by industry and the harmfulness of sewage. However, he did not see “a comprehensive risk of Basel's industrial wastewater for the fish in the Rhine”.

From 1883 to 1907 Nienhaus was a lecturer in pharmacognosy and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Basel. Nienhaus "offered a course with internship for prospective pharmacists in the rooms of his own pharmacy", from which a teaching assignment for the mathematics and natural sciences department of the philosophy faculty later developed.

Nienhaus was a member of the Swiss Natural Research Society and the Central Association of the Swiss Red Cross . He was made an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy (Dr. phil. Hc).

Nienhaus was a member of the federal commission for the drafting of the Pharmacopoea helvetica III and IV and a member of the Basel sanitary commission. He was also a member of the Grand Council of the City of Basel .

Works

  • Report on the pollution of the Rhine by waste materials from the factories in Basel's industrial district to the Swiss Department of Commerce and Agriculture. Basel 1883.

literature

  • Eugen Beuttner: Dr. Kasimir Nienhaus. 1838-1910. In: Negotiations of the Swiss Natural Research Society , Volume 94 (1911), pp. 51–52 PDF

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Beuttner
  2. ↑ 135 years of Löwen Apotheke
  3. ↑ Jörg Lange: On the history of water protection on the Upper and High Rhine. A case study on environmental and biology history. Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate at the Faculty of Biology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2002, p. 70 digital copy
  4. ^ Christian Simon : Natural Sciences in Basel in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Philosophical and Natural Sciences Faculty of the University , Basel 2010, p. 23 PDF
  5. ↑ Pharmacopoeia at www.swissmedic.ch ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swissmedic.ch
personal data
SURNAME Nienhaus, Casimir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nienhaus-Meinau, Casimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION University lecturer and pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH City wages
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1910
Place of death Basel