Wolfgang Schneider (pharmacy historian)

Wolfgang Schneider (born July 31, 1912 in Berlin ; † December 30, 2007 ) was a German historian of pharmacy .

Life

Schneider completed an internship as a pharmacist (Fichtenberg pharmacy in Berlin) and studied pharmacy in Berlin with the pharmaceutical state examination in 1935, the chemist's association examination in 1936 and his doctorate under Carl Mannich in 1938. From 1948 he was an assistant at the Institute for Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Technical University of Braunschweig , where he completed his habilitation in 1954. In 1958 he founded the Department of Pharmaceutical History in Braunschweig and became an associate professor there in 1960. In 1977 he retired, but remained active at the seminar. His successor was Erika Hickel (* 1934).

He dealt in particular with the history of medicines, where he also experimentally researched the formulations of old medicines. He also dealt with Paracelsus and his school. He is known for his Lexicon of the History of Drugs and his History of Pharmaceutical Chemistry (1972).

In 1976 he became a member of the Leopoldina . Schneider was President of the International Society for the History of Pharmacy from 1970 to 1981.

His private library was acquired by the Braunschweig University Library .

He was editor of the Braunschweig publications on the history of pharmacy and natural sciences .

Fonts

• Lexicon on the history of pharmaceuticals: Specialized dictionary on the history of pharmaceutical botany, chemistry, mineralogy, pharmacology, zoology . 7 volumes (volume 5 in three parts), Govi ​​Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1968 to 1975 (volume 1: animal drugs , volume 2: pharmacological drug groups , volume 3: pharmaceutical chemicals and minerals , volume 4: secret drugs and specialties , volume 5: Herbal Drugs , Volume 6: Supplements to Volume III , Volume 7: Register ).
• History of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Verlag Chemie, Weinheim 1972.
• The career and future of pharmacy: my little pharmacy story . Deutscher Apothekerverlag, 1995.
• as editor: History of Pharmacy . In: Dictionary of Pharmacy . Volume 4, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1985.
• Lexicon of alchemical-pharmaceutical symbols . Verlag Chemie, Weinheim 1962 (with partial facsimile: Medicinisch-Chymisch- und Alchemistisches Oraculum. , Ulm and Memmingen (Gaumische Handlung) 1755).
• Paracelsus - news from his Tartarus lecture 1527/28 . In: Braunschweiger publications on the history of pharmacy and natural sciences , 29, Deutscher Apotheker Verlag, 1985,
• My dealings with Paracelsus and Paracelsists: Contributions to Paracelsus research, especially in the field of drug history . Govi-Verlag, Frankfurt 1982.
• with Dietrich Arends, Erika Hickel: The warehouse of a medieval pharmacy: (Ratsapotheke Lüneburg 1475) . In: Publications from the Pharmacy History Seminar of the TH Braunschweig , 1957/4, Braunschweig 1960.
• History of the German Pharmaceutical Society: 1890–1965 . Verlag Chemie, Weinheim 1965.
• From the history of the German pharmaceutical industry in the 19th century . In: Conference booklet of the 23rd Int. Congress of Pharmaceutical Science . Munster 1963.
• as editor: Braunschweig Technical University . Landesdienst-Verlag, Berlin 1963.
• About the technique of pharmaceutical history work . In: Süddeutsche Apotheker-Zeitung , 2, 1948.
• Pharmaceutical history individual investigations . In: Pharmazeutische Zeitung , 86, 1950, No. 47.
• The state pharmacy in Braunschweig . In: Pharmazeutische Zeitung , 85, 1949, No. 17.
• Leonardo da Vinci's knowledge of chemistry and its significance for the history of chemistry . In: Die Pharmazie , 4, 1949.

literature

• Erika Hickel (editor): New contributions to the history of medicines: Festschrift for Wolfgang Schneider on his 70th birthday . Scientific publishing company, Stuttgart 1982.
• Stefan Wulle: Obituary. University Library Braunschweig, doi: 10.24355 / dbbs.084-201712141111

Web links

• Works by and about Wolfgang Schneider  in the German Digital Library