Johann Georg Noel Dragendorff

Georg Dragendorff ( born April 8, 1836 in Rostock, † April 7, 1898 ibid, full name Johann Georg Noel Dragendorff ) was a German chemist and professor of pharmacy at Dorpat.

Life

He studied in his native city under Franz Schulze and his doctorate in 1861 for Dr. phil. Already in 1864 he was appointed as Professor of Pharmacy to Dorpat, where he was thirty years worked. For political reasons, he was forced in 1894 to resign. He retired to Rostock and stayed busy scientifically there.

The University of Munich awarded him in 1872 the medical honorary doctorate. Dragendorff's main plant medicinal plants was not published until after his death.

Since 1856 he was a member of the Corps Obotritia Rostock.

Writings

• Contributions to judicial chemistry. St. Petersburg 1871
• The court - chemical determination of toxins in food, air mixtures, food waste, body parts, etc. 1st edition H. Schmitz Dorff, St. Petersburg, 1868; 2nd edition, ibid 1876; 3rd and 4th edition Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1888 or 1895
• The qualitative and quantitative analysis of plants and plant parts: With pre-printed woodcuts and a lithographed. Panel. Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1882. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
• Medicinal plants of different peoples and times. Your application, essential constituents and history. A handbook for doctors, pharmacists, botanists and druggists. Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1898 ( Graphic Repro reprint 1968)