Willem Frans Daems

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Willem Frans Daems (born December 3, 1911 in Amsterdam , † December 29, 1994 in Arlesheim ) was a Dutch pharmacist , pharmacist and anthroposophist .

Life

Willem Frans Daems studied pharmacy in Amsterdam and graduated with a doctoral thesis in pharmacy history. From 1938 he practiced as a pharmacist in Arnhem and Haarlem , switched to the pharmaceutical industry in 1948, became director of the »Biochema« in Leiden in 1951 and worked his way into anthroposophy .

In 1955 he joined the Weleda Arlesheim company as a pharmacist , where he set up a documentation center. From 1961 he edited the "Weleda correspondence sheets for doctors". From 1965 to 1991 he headed the pharmaceutical medical department at “Weleda” .

He completed a second linguistic degree in Leiden in 1967 with a doctorate to become a Dr. phil. In 1968 Daems was commissioned to teach drug studies at the Federal Druggists' College in Neuchâtel . Since 1973 he has been a lecturer (Professeur agrégé) at the University of Würzburg , where he and Gundolf Keil wrote numerous articles on the author's lexicon and the lexicon of the Middle Ages . From 1986 to 1989 he was interim president of the Swiss Paracelsus Society.

Publications (selection)

Extended catalog raisonné up to 1982 in: Gundolf Keil (Ed.): “Gelêrter der arzenîe, ouch apotêker”. Contributions to the history of science. Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Willem F. Daems. Pattensen, Hanover 1982 (= Würzburg medical historical research. Volume 24), now Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, pp. 667-674.

  • The terms technici apoteca and apotecarius in the Middle Ages. In: Publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy. New Series, Volume 8, 1956, pp. 39-52.
  • with Paul G. Bellmann. Is mistletoe an old cancer cure? In: Sudhoffs Archiv 49 (1965) pp. 355-363
  • The middle-country Macerglosses in Ms. 6838a of the National Library of Paris. In: Janus. Volume 53, (Leiden) 1966, pp. 17-29.
  • Boec van medicinen in Dietsche. Een Middelnederlandse compilatie van medisch-farmaceutische literature. Philosophical dissertation Leiden 1976 (= Janus. Supplement 7). Brill, Leiden 1967.
  • The Clareit and Ypocras recipes in Thomas van der Noot's 'Notabel boecxken von cokeryen' (around 1510). In: Gundolf Keil, Rainer Rudolf, Wolfram Schmitt, Hans J. Vermeer (eds.): Specialist literature of the Middle Ages. Festschrift Gerhard Eis. Stuttgart 1968, pp. 205-224.
  • The rose is cold in the first degree, dry in the second . In: Contributions to an expansion of the healing arts based on knowledge from the humanities. Volume 25, No. 6, Stuttgart 25 (1972), pp. 204-211
  • Stimmi - stibium - antimony. A substance historical consideration. (= Weleda series of publications. 9). Arlesheim / Schwäbisch Gmünd 1976.
  • with Gundolf Keil: The Solothurn version of the 'tractatulus de collectione medicinarum'. In: Gottfried Schramm (Ed.): New contributions to the history of pharmacy. Festschrift Hans-Rudolf Fehlmann. Zurich 1979 (from 1981 Pattensen / Han.), Pp. 47–57.
  • with Gundolf Keil: Henrik Harpestraeng's 'Latinske Urtebog' in the medieval Netherlands. In: Gundolf Keil, with Peter Assion , Willem Frans Daems and Heinz-Ulrich Roehl (Eds.): Specialized prose studies. Contributions to the history of science and ideas. Festschrift Gerhard Eis . E. Schmidt, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-503-01269-9 , pp. 396-416.
  • "Sal" - "Mercury" - "Sulfur" in Paracelsus and the "Book of the Holy Trinity". In: Nova Acta Paracelsica. Volume 10, 1982, pp. 189-207.
  • Digestio: sense or nonsense. In: Hans-Rudolf Fehlmann, François Ledermann (eds.): Festschrift Alfons Lutz and Jakob Büchi. Zurich 1983 (= Publications of Switzerland. Society for the History of Pharmacy. Volume 2), pp. 151–179.
  • Nomina simplicium medicinarum ex synonymariis medii aevi collecta . (Studies in ancient medicine. Edited by John Scarborough , Volume 6), Brill, Leiden 1993 ISBN 90 04096728
  • What are potentiated remedies? To understand homeopathic and anthroposophic medicine . Verl. Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1993 ISBN 3-7725-1223-2

literature

  • Gundolf Keil (ed.). "Gelêrter der arzenîe, ouch apotêker". Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Willem F. Daems . (Würzburg medical historical research: Volume 24) Pattensen 1982 ISBN 3-921456-35-5
  • Urs Leo Gantenbein. The history of the Swiss Paracelsus Society . In: Salzburg Contributions to Paracelsus Research 33 (1999), pp. 84-109
  • Johannes Zwiauer. Dr. phil. Willem Frans Daems . In: GAPiD Society of Anthroposophical Pharmacists in Germany eV Pioneers of Anthroposophical Pharmacy . Eight biographical sketches. 4th edition Stuttgart 2011, pp. 19-27.
  • Henning Schramm. Research Center for Culture Impulse, Dornach: Daems, Willem Wilhelmus Frans (digitized version)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The dissertation was published as: Boec van medicinen in Dietsche. A middelnederlandse compilatie van medisch-farmaceutische literature . (Janus. Supplement Volume 7). Brill, Leiden 1967
  2. ↑ Urs Leo Gantenbein. The history of the Swiss Paracelsus Society. In: Salzburg contributions to Paracelsus research. Volume 33, 1999, pp. 105-106.
personal data
SURNAME Daems, Willem Frans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch pharmacist, pharmacist and anthroposophist
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1994
Place of death Arlesheim