Richard Wasicky

Richard Balthasar Wasicky (born February 6, 1884 in Teschen ; † August 10, 1970 in São Paulo ) was an Austrian pharmacist and founder of the Vienna School of modern pharmacognosy .

Live and act

Richard Wasicky studied pharmacy and then medicine at the University of Vienna . In 1914 his habilitation followed , in 1921 he was appointed full professor. From 1924 to 1926 he was dean of the medical faculty. After the "Anschluss of Austria" he lost his position. He went to Switzerland, then to France and finally to Brazil, where he was appointed to the University of São Paulo . Wasicky's main work, the two-volume textbook Physiopharmakognosie represents the entire range of medicinal drugs from the plant and animal kingdoms. In 1925 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina . He was an honorary doctor of the Sorbonne , in 1954 (70th birthday) he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna.

literature

Marietta Hausknost (curator): Catalog of the exhibition on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Professor Richard Wasicky, director of the Pharmacognostic Institute of the University of Vienna 1920–1938 . Institute for Pharmacognosy of the University of Vienna (among others), Vienna 1984, OBV .

Web links

Biographical data on the website of the Medical University of Vienna
Wasicky, Richard in: General Catalog of the Austrian Library Association

Individual evidence

^ List of members Leopoldina, Richard Wasicky
^ 75th birthday of Richard Wasicky , Vienna City Hall Correspondence February 1959.
↑ From day to day. (...) Seventieth birthday of a Viennese scholar . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 4, 1954, p. 4 , column 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

personal data
SURNAME	Wasicky, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wasicky, Richard Balthasar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian pharmacist and founder of the Vienna School of modern pharmacognosy
DATE OF BIRTH	February 6, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Teschen
DATE OF DEATH	August 10, 1970
Place of death	São Paulo

[1] List of members Leopoldina, Richard Wasicky

[2] 75th birthday of Richard Wasicky , Vienna City Hall Correspondence February 1959.

[3] From day to day. (...) Seventieth birthday of a Viennese scholar . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 4, 1954, p. 4 , column 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).