Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke

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Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke (born February 12, 1944 in Kirchen (Sieg) ) is a German pharmacist and honorary professor of pharmacy history at the University of Heidelberg . He is the author of numerous specialist books.

Life

After his license to practice as a pharmacist in 1970, Müller-Jahncke received his doctorate in Marburg in 1973 in the history of pharmacy . Following his habilitation in 1982, also in Marburg, he initially worked at the university there. In 1988 he took over an honorary professorship for the history of pharmacy at what is now the Institute for Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology at Heidelberg University.

Müller-Jahncke was also involved in various voluntary work outside the university: from 1986 to 1997 as curator of the German Pharmacy Museum in Heidelberg, from 1993 to 1995 as president of the Society for the History of Science , from 1997 as secretary and from 2001 to 2009 as president of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire de la Pharmacie . In 1998 he founded the Hermann Schelenz Institute for Pharmaceutical and Cultural History in Heidelberg eV

Müller-Jahncke is the author of 15 books and several hundred journal articles, his publications include contributions to the history of pharmacy, including outsider therapy , astrology and the history of magic in the early modern period .

Müller-Jahncke ran the Privileged Pharmacy in Kirchen (Sieg) from 1978 to 2013 .

Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke is co-author of the medical dictionary published by Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann , the third edition of which appeared in 2006.

Honors

In 2010 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for his special voluntary work in the academic and social field .

Publications (selection)

  • "For that reason, I let myself be caught by folk". The herbarium of the 'Codex Berleburg' as a template for the 'Garden of Health'. In: Deutsche Apothekerzeitung. Volume 117, 1977, pp. 1663-1671.
  • with Werner Dressendörfer and Gundolf Keil : Elderly German 'Macer' - Ortolf von Baierland: 'Pharmacopoeia' - 'Herbarium' by Bernhard von Breidenbach - Dyer and painter recipes: The Upper Rhine medical composite manuscript of the Berleburg Codex. Color microfiche edition with an introduction to the texts, description of the plant images and the handwriting. Munich 1991 (= Codices illuminati medii aevi. Volume 13).
  • as ed. with Peter Dilg, Guido Jüttner and Paul U. Innschuld : Perspektiven der Pharmaziegeschichte. Festschrift Rudolf Schmitz . Graz 1983.
  • Astrological-magical theory and practice in early modern medicine. Stuttgart 1985 (= Sudhoffs Archive. Supplement 25).
  • as ed. with Werner Dressendörfer: Orbis pictus. Festschrift Wolfgang-Hagen Hein. Frankfurt am Main 1985.
  • with Christoph Friedrich : History of Pharmacy, II: From the early modern times to the present. (2005), in: Rudolf Schmitz (Ed.): History of Pharmacy. 2 volumes, Govi, Eschborn 1998–2005, volume 2.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pharmaceutical newspaper, 17th edition of April 29, 2010, page 113.
  2. http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/pharm_0035-2349_1997_num_85_315_4558
  3. WHEN THE WOMEN CONQUERED THE OFFICER ( Memento of April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann : Doctors Lexicon. From antiquity to the present , 3rd edition Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-540-29584-6 (print), ISBN 978-3-540-29585-3 (online). doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3