Theodor Peckolt

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Theodor Peckolt

Theodor Peckolt (born July 13, 1822 in Pechern ; † September 21, 1912 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a German pharmacist, pharmacist, botanist and naturalist.

Life

Peckolt was the eldest son of the officer and landowner Ferdinand August Carl Peckolt and Juliana Eleonora Peckolt. After school he worked as an apprentice to a pharmacist in Triebel / Niederlausitz from 1837 and then to pharmacists in other cities until 1941. It is believed that this change of city was due to his father's military career. Then Peckolt was appointed because of his qualification as a military pharmacist in the fortress Głogów in German Silesia. This unsatisfactory activity led him to study first at the University of Rostock and then at the University of Göttingen . He passed there with top marks.

Peckolt was subsequently hired by the director of the Hamburg Botanical Garden on the recommendation of the ornithologist Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach . In 1947, on the recommendation of Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius , Peckolt emigrated to Rio de Janeiro to explore the country with other scientists and collect information on botany, zoology and mineralogy for the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich. Theodor Peckolt boarded a ship on September 28, 1847 and arrived in Rio de Janeiro in November 1847, where he worked for a short time in a pharmacy and then traveled through the country's provinces from September 1848.

In July 1851 he passed the pharmaceutical examination of the Medical Faculty of Rio de Janeiro. Three months later he settled in the city of Cantagalo in the province of Rio de Janeiro. A year later he married Henriqueta Sauerbrönn, daughter of the Protestant pastor Friederich Oswald Sauerbrönn, and leader of the first German families in the Swiss colony of Nova Friburgo in the then province of Rio de Janeiro. With her had a son. His son Gustavo Peckolt (1861–1923) later also worked as a pharmacist.

In 1864 the Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Germanica made him honoris causa doctor of philosophy. In 1867, Emperor Peter II appointed him to the Brazilian court pharmacist in Rio de Janeiro. In April 1868 Theodor Peckolt finally moved to the city of Rio de Janeiro, where he joined the pharmacist Frederico Augusto Duval, who had a chemical and pharmaceutical laboratory based on the German system in Rua do Rosário No. 69. From 1874 to 1876 he also headed the chemistry laboratory of the Imperial and National Museum. From 1873 to 1884 he was secretary and member of the botany department of the Brazilian Acclimatization Association. Between 1885 and 1889 he was also a professor of organic chemistry, biology and toxicology at the Escola Superior de Farmácia.

Peckolt died in Rio de Janeiro in September 1912.

Honors

In 1862 Peckolt received the Order of Roses from the Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II . In 1863 he was elected a member of the Academia Nacional de Medicina in Rio de Janeiro. A year later he was appointed doctor of philosophy.

In 1865 the French botanist Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier (1834-1884) named a genus of the Asclepiadaceae "Peckoltia" in his honor . In 1869 Peckolt received the North Star Order from the King of Sweden . In addition, the General Austrian Pharmacists Association made him an honorary member in 1887.

Works (selection)

Peckolt left around 170 publications, including articles in magazines and books.

  • Examination of the pulp and the seed cover (polpa and pergaminho) of the coffee berries. In: Archives of Pharmacy. 170, 1864, p. 85, doi : 10.1002 / ardp.18641700110 .
  • About agoniada and agoniadin. In: Archives of Pharmacy. 192, 1870, p. 34, doi : 10.1002 / ardp.18701920103 .
  • Catalog of the pharmacognostic, pharmaceutical and chemical collection from the Brazilian flora for the national exhibition in Rio de Janeiro 1866. Carl Gerold's and Son publishing house, Vienna 1868.
  • Popular names of Brazilian plants and products of the same in Brazilian (Portuguese) and names adopted from the Tupi language. In: Monographs botany flowering plants. Volume 397, Pharmaceutical Review Publishing Co., Milwaukee 1907, pp. 1-255 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

With son Gustavo Peckolt:

  • Theodor Peckolt, Gustavo Peckolt: Historia Das Plantas Medicinaes E Uteis Do Brazil: Sexto Fasciculo. 1896, new edition Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010, ISBN 1-168-07349-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A pharmacist anniversary. In: L. Bley (Ed.): Archives of the Pharmacie . Journal of the general German pharmacists' association. VIII. Year. Hahn, Hannover 1858, p. 222 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Dicionário Histórico-Biográfico das Ciências da Saúde no Brasil (1832–1930) - Theodor Peckolt (PT)
  3. ↑ Communications of the German Pharmaceutical Society, Volume 24, page 90, German Pharmaceutical Society, 1914
  4. ^ Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE), 2nd edition, Volume 7, Theodor Peckolt, p. 715, KG Sauer 2007
  5. ^ Journal of the General Austrian Pharmacists Association, Volume 50, p. 468, self-published by the association, 1912
personal data
SURNAME Peckolt, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peckolt, Theodoro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist, pharmacist, botanist and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad luck
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1912
Place of death Rio de Janeiro