Philipp Lorenz Geiger

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Philipp Lorenz Geiger

Philipp Lorenz Geiger (born  August 29, 1785 in Freinsheim , †  January 19, 1836 in Heidelberg ) was a German chemist and pharmacist . He worked as a professor at Heidelberg University from 1824 until his death and is considered the discoverer of several plant alkaloids . His botanical author abbreviation is Geiger .

Life

Philipp Lorenz Geiger was born in Freinsheim in 1785 as the son of a pastor and from the age of 14 completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in Adelsheim and Heidelberg . In the following years he worked in Karlsruhe , where he completed the pharmaceutical exam in 1807, and in Rastatt and Lörrach as a pharmacist. After he had already had his own pharmacy in Lörrach, he was the owner of the Heidelberg University Pharmacy from 1814 to 1821, where he gave private lessons in botany , pharmacognosy and pharmaceutical chemistry from 1816 onwards .

After studying in Basel , Karlsruhe and Heidelberg, which he obtained in 1817 with a doctorate as Dr. phil. et med. graduated, he worked after his habilitation in 1818 as a lecturer and from 1824 until his death as associate professor for chemistry and pharmacy at the University of Heidelberg . The appointment was made against the will of Leopold Gmelin , who was a full professor of chemistry in Heidelberg.

Philipp Lorenz Geiger had his first marriage from 1811 and his second marriage after the death of his wife from 1826, and from his second marriage he was the father of two sons and four daughters. He died in Heidelberg in 1836.

Work and awards

Philipp Lorenz Geiger obtained atropine from the poisonous black berries of the deadly nightshade ( Atropa belladonna ).

Philipp Lorenz Geiger devoted himself to many other areas of pharmacy, in particular phytochemical analyzes, and is considered the discoverer of coniin (1831) and, together with Ludwig Hesse, a co-discoverer of atropine , colchicine , hyoscyamine and aconitine .

His most important work was the "Handbuch der Pharmacie", first published in 1824 and reissued several times, which was revised and edited after his death by Justus von Liebig , Theodor Friedrich Ludwig Nees von Esenbeck , Ludwig Clamor Marquart and Johann Heinrich Dierbach (1788–1845) has been.

Also in 1824 he took over the editing of the "Magazine for Pharmacy and the Sciences That Happened", which from 1832 was included in Justus von Liebig's " Annals of Pharmacy " as an insert "Magazine for Pharmacy and Experimental Criticism " . His work on a pharmacopoeia under the title "Pharmacopoea universalis", which Karl Friedrich Mohr continued by Karl Friedrich Mohr , remained unfinished .

The University of Marburg awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1828 .

Works (selection)

  • Handbook of Pharmacy. Two volumes. Heidelberg 1824 (new editions 1827 and 1832)
  • Handbook of Pharmacy. Two volumes. Heidelberg, 2nd ed. / Revised. by Th. Fr. L. Nees von Esenbeck; Joh. Heinrich Dierbach and Clamor Marquart, 1837–1843.
  • About pharmacopoeias in general and the new Pharmacopoea Badensis in particular: A speech given on September 21, 1835 at the public meeting of German naturalists and doctors in Bonn. Heidelberg 1835. (Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
  • Pharmacopoea universalis. Started in 1835, unfinished

literature

  • Geiger, Philipp Lorenz. In: Wolfgang Hagen Hein, Holm-Dietmar Schwarz: German pharmacist biography. Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-80-470518-9 , Volume 1, p. 194
  • Geiger, Philipp Lorenz. In: Edward Kremers, George Urdang, Glenn Sonnedecker: Kremers and Urdang's History of Pharmacy. American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, Madison WI 1986, ISBN 0-93-129217-4 , p. 459
  • Georg Edmund Then:  Geiger, Philipp Lorenz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 147 f. ( Digitized version ).

Further publications

  • Ulrike Thomas: Pharmacy in the field of tension of reorientation: Philipp Lorenz Geiger (1785–1836). Life, work and activity. Series: Sources and Studies on the History of Pharmacy. Volume 36. Deutscher Apotheker-Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-76-920901-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry Geiger . In Winfried Pötsch u. a .: Lexicon of important chemists . Harri Deutsch, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-8171-1055-3
  2. ↑ Philipp Lorenz Geiger (Ed.) Magazine for Pharmacy and the relevant sciences. 2nd year (volume 7), Chr. Fr. Müller, Karlsruhe 1824 (digital copy)
personal data
SURNAME Geiger, Philipp Lorenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geiger, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Freinsheim
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1836
Place of death Heidelberg