Max Fanta

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Max Fanta (born February 2, 1858 in Libochovice ; † 1925 ) was a pharmacist and inventor of the Fantaschale named after him .

Life

Albert Einstein on a plaque on the former Fanta house.
Modern fantasy bowl made of glass.

Max Fanta married Berta Sohr in 1884 , who came from a wealthy Jewish family. The mother Emilie Sohr bought the couple in Prague the house "Zum Einhorn" on the Old Town Square , which also had a pharmacy. The children Else (* July 28, 1886; † 1969 in Jerusalem) and Otto (1890–1940) were born in the Fanta house . The mother-in-law also financed a summer house for the families of her daughters Berta and Ida in the suburb of Podbaba .

From 1903 Franz Kafka was often a guest at Fanta through the mediation of Felix Weltsch . However, the head of the house is said to have often been absent-minded and silent at these meetings. In 1908, daughter Else married Samuel Hugo Bergman , a school friend of Kafka. In 1911 and 1912 Albert Einstein played the violin in the Fanta house and met Kafka and Max Brod there , as can be seen on a memorial plaque today.

To simplify the production of ointments and creams, Max Fanta designed the Fanta bowl named after him, which is still in use today. Due to possible cross-contamination of medicinal substances, bowls made of melamine resin are increasingly being replaced by specimens made of stainless steel or glass. This "new type of ointment mortar for the recipe" was protected in Prague in 1903. In 1904, in the quarterly journal for practical pharmacy of the German Pharmacists' Association, both the Fantaschale and Fanta's sterilized saline solution Serum anorganicum Truneček for subcutaneous use in arteriosclerosis were presented.

Fanta has been described as one of the leading pharmacists in Prague by Kafka biographer Nicholas Murray.

literature

  • Else Bergmann: family history . Manuscript, Tel Aviv, late 1940s. Excerpt in: Albert Lichtblau (Ed.): As if we had belonged . Vienna: Böhlau, 1999, pp. 397–417.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reiner Stach: Kafka: The early years. S. Fischer Verlag, 2014. ISBN 978-3-10-403158-3 .
  2. ^ Wilma Iggers: Women's life in Prague: Ethnic diversity and cultural change since the 18th century. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2000. ISBN 978-3-205-98759-8 . P. 415.
  3. ^ Peter-André Alt: Franz Kafka: The Eternal Son. A biography. CH Beck, 2008. ISBN 978-3-406-57535-8 . P. 118.
  4. ↑ Benjamin Wessinger: Resolution of the pharmaceutical councils: The end of the melamine fantasy bowls? In: Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung , November 17, 2014.
  5. ↑ Pharmaceutical Central Hall for Germany (Volume 44). T. Steinkopff., 1903. p. 341.
  6. ↑ Imperial Patent Office (ed.): Patentblatt (Volume 30, Part 1). C. Heymanns Verlag, 1906. p. 398.
  7. ^ German Pharmacists Association: Quarterly journal for practical pharmacy (Volume 1). 1904, p. 143 or p. 176.
  8. ^ Nicholas Murray: Kafka. Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-300-10631-2 . P. 58.
personal data
SURNAME Fanta, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pharmacist and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Libochovice
DATE OF DEATH 1925