Wolfgang-Hagen Hein

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Wolfgang-Hagen Hein (born February 7, 1920 in Halle an der Saale ; † April 4, 2003 in Bad Soden am Taunus ) was a German pharmacist , author and honorary professor for the history of pharmacy at the University of Würzburg . He was considered one of the most prominent and versatile representatives of pharmaceutical history and an expert on the life and work of Alexander von Humboldt.

Life

Wolfgang-Hagen Hein was born in Halle an der Saale as the son of a pharmacist. After graduating from high school, he did a pharmacy internship at the Hof- und Stadtapotheke Eisenberg in Thuringia from 1937 to 1939 and then began studying pharmacy in Munich . Since he had to interrupt military service several times, he did not take the state examination until 1944 . From 1945 he worked as a doctoral student in the Schützen pharmacy in Munich, until 1948 when he was working for his doctoral thesis on the ingredients of tansy with Dr. Gerhard Schenk received his doctorate from the University of Munich and then worked in the Winthir pharmacy in Munich . From 1952 to 1962, Wolfgang-Hagen Hein was responsible as managing director of Stada in Essen / Frankfurt . In 1963 he opened the Taunusblick pharmacy in Zeilsheim .

From 1960 he was a lecturer at the University of Würzburg and in 1970 he was appointed honorary professor for the history of pharmacy.

Wolfgang-Hagen Hein has been responsible for the International and German Society for the History of Pharmacy since the 1960s . He was also on the board of the Association of Friends of the Pharmacy Museum in Heidelberg (today the Society of the German Pharmacy Museum). When his friend Christian Wehle , also a pharmacy historian, died, Hein took over the chairmanship of the board of the German Pharmacy Museum Foundation. He held this office from December 6, 1985 to December 31, 1990.

Services

Since his father was a deeply humanist collector of Goethe , Wolfgang-Hagen Hein also developed a passion for collecting at a very young age. When asked which area to collect , he listened to his friend Rudolph Zaunick , who recommended Alexander von Humboldt . This was the foundation stone for one of the most important private collections about this natural scientist of Goethe's time. This contained hundreds of letters, all first editions and almost all graphic portraits, medals and small sculptures. For this reason, Wolfgang-Hagen Hein became a recognized Humboldt researcher. In 1989 Hein sold his Humboldt collection to the State of Berlin; it is now kept in the Stadtmuseum Berlin. When Fritz Ferchl died in 1953, the future of the pharmacy calendar he founded in 1925 was in serious danger. Hein took on this task. As a result, an image archive that is still unique in its abundance, scientific processing and print quality.

He wrote numerous works on iconography of the history of pharmacy and was co-editor of the Deutsche Apotheker-Biographie .

During his employment at the Winthir pharmacy in Munich, together with Johannes Krutzsch, he developed several devices for the simplified determination of physical parameters. The Krutzschmeter® for determining the density of a liquid; the Alkrumeter® for determining the alcohol number according to DAB 6 and the Fekrumeter® for determining the density of solids .

Fonts (selection)

He wrote his first work on pharmacy history at the age of 31: In the Deutsche Apothekerzeitung he wrote about the pharmacy tax of the city of Eisleben from 1598.

Autobiographies:

  • Encounters (1976)
  • Experiences (1985)

Other works:

  • with Kurt Sappert: The medical order of Friedrich II. A study of the history of pharmacy. Eutin 1957 (= publications of the international society for the history of pharmacy. New series. Volume 12).
  • with Holm-Dietmar Schwarz: German pharmacist biography. 2 volumes. Stuttgart 1975–1978 (= publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy. New Series, Volume 43/46).
  • (as editor and author) Alexander von Humboldt. Life and work. Boehringer Sohn, Ingelheim am Rhein 1985, ISBN 3-921037-55-7 .
  • Alexander von Humboldt and pharmacy (= publication of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy eV NF, Vol. 56). Knowledge Verl.-Ges., Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 978-3-8047-0984-3
  • Apothecary bookplates from Germany, Austria and Switzerland: Eschborn / Ts: Govi-Verl., 1997, ISBN 978-3-7741-0643-7
  • The pharmacy label: Govi-Verl., Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 978-3-7741-0466-2
  • as editor, with Dirk Arnold Wittop Koning: picture catalog for the history of pharmacy (= publications of the international society for the history of pharmacy. New series, volume 33). Stuttgart 1969.
  • as editor, with Gottfried Schramm: The lectures of the International Congress of Pharmacy History , Basel 1979 (= publications of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy eV, New Series, Volume 50).

literature

  • Hermann Vogel: Obituary: In memory of Wolfgang-Hagen Hein , in Pharm. Ztg. 148 (2003), No. 32, pp. 5-7
  • Werner Dressendörfer: Prof. Dr, Wolfgang-Hagen Hein, Bad Soden, deceased (1920-2003), in Deutscher Apotheker Ztg. 143 (2003), No. 16, pp. 162-164

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.deutsches-apotheken-museum.de/museum/geschichte.php?WEBYEP_DI=7
  2. ↑ Stadtmuseum Berlin: Humboldt Collection Hein, https://www.stadtmuseum.de/sammlungen/humboldt-sammlung-hein .
personal data
SURNAME Hein, Wolfgang-Hagen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pharmacist, author and honorary professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle on the Saale
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 2003
Place of death Bad Soden am Taunus