Max Wichtl

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Max Wichtl (born October 6, 1925 in Vienna ; † July 30, 2019 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian professor of pharmacognosy .

Life and research

Max Wichtl studied chemistry and botany in Vienna and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. He then studied pharmacy at the University of Vienna and graduated with a master's degree in pharmacy (Mag.pharm.). After his habilitation in pharmacognosy in 1965, he was a professor at the University of Vienna from 1971 and in 1973 took the chair for pharmacognosy at the Philipps University of Marburg , where he remained until his retirement in 1993. There he was director of the Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology .

In his scientific work he initially dealt with cardiac glycosides . Later he also turned to medicinal plants in general and the pharmaceutical and therapeutic quality of medicinal drugs. He has been a member of Committee E since it was founded in 1978, and was chairman of the Committee for Pharmaceutical Biology there from 1986 to 1992. He was co-editor of the Commentary on the European Pharmacopoeia from 1981 to 1999.

His best-known work is the book Wichtl - Teedrogen und Phytopharmaka: A manual for the practice , which he founded in 1984 (with the collaboration of Franz-Christian Czygan and others) and up to and including the 5th edition Also published in 2008. In the 6th edition in 2016, now edited by Wolfgang Blaschek , he was still involved as a co-author.

Others

Max Wichtl was an honorary member of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research , of which he was President and Vice-President several times, and since November 7, 2012 also an honorary member of the Austrian Society for Phytotherapy (ÖGPhyt). He was also a member of the Austrian, German and European pharmacopoeia commissions. As an enthusiastic musician, he gained fame in musical circles through his translation of the Mozart biography by the American musicologist Maynard Solomon .

Works (selection)

  • Tea Drugs: A Guide for Pharmacists and Physicians. Stuttgart 1984.
    • W. Blaschek (Ed.): Wichtl - Teedrogen und Phytopharmaka: A manual for the practice . 6th edition, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-8047-3068-7 .
  • Max Wichtl, Martin Luckner: Digitalis: history, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, physiology, molecular biology, pharmacology, medical application . Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8047-1705-5 .
  • Max Wichtl: The pharmacognostic-chemical analysis: investigation and valuation of drugs and pharmaceutical preparations (methods of analysis in chemistry; 12). Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankfurt / Main 1971, ISBN 3-400-00053-1 .

literature

  • Judith M. Rollinger, Brigitte Kopp: Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Dr. Max Wichtl. In: Planta Med , 2017; 83 (12/13): 960-961 doi : 10.1055 / s-0043-116321
  • Brigitte Kopp, Judith M. Rollinger: Special Issue Dedicated to Professor Dr. Max Wichtl. In: Planta Med , 2017; 83 (14/15): 1108-1109 doi : 10.1055 / s-0043-116597

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary: On the death of Prof. em. Dr. Mag.Pharm. Max Wichtl (1925 - 2019) on deutsche-apotheker-zeitung.de , article only available to DAZ subscribers, accessed on August 10, 2019
  2. ↑ Obituary: Der Enthusiast der Phytochemie auf phytotherapie.at, Volume 13/2019, Issue 2, p. 26f , accessed September 24, 2019
  3. ↑ Marburger UniJournal 7/2000, p. 38 (Online) ( Memento from June 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Der neue Wichtl: Book presentation of the 6th edition in Vienna on March 31, 2016.
  5. ↑ Honorary membership for emer. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Max Wichtl on www.phytotherapie.at
  6. ↑ Eckelshausener Musiktage: Max Wichtl
personal data
SURNAME Wichtl, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chemist, botanist and pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 2019
Place of death Salzburg