Ludwig Clamor Marquart

Ludwig Clamor Marquart ( born March 29, 1804 in Osnabrück, † May 10, 1881 in Bonn ) was a German pharmacist and entrepreneur.

At some sites in the internet address of the spelling of the surname as " Marquardt ". According to the official, official documents ( Established in 1846 the company, which still exists commercial register excerpt), however, the spelling " Marquart " true.

Biography

He coined in 1835 in his essay "The colors of the flowers " called " anthocyanins " for flower pigments.

In 1846 he founded in Bonn utensils business with the name Marquart 's chemical storage utensils, in the entered Carl Gerhardt ( father of the painter August Macke ) as an apprentice. 1872 Carl Gerhardt acquired the business from his teacher Marquart. Later, the company went after a change of name to " C. Gerhardt Factory & Warehouse chemical Apparate GmbH & Co. KG "in the property of Macke family about who runs it now in the fifth generation.

Also in 1846 he founded the Dr. L.C. Marquart OHG, a fabrication of fine chemicals, disinfectants and pharmaceutical actives, which was acquired in 1892 by Dr. Alfred Koelliker (chemist), was converted into a public limited company in 1921 and later merged into the company Degussa. Today The work is one of Evonik Industries.

In the meantime he joined in 1865 at the Société Française de Wothlytypie also and received by this license to producing images by the novel Wothlytypie process.

Marquart is also regarded as a co-inventor of baking powder in a project with Justus von Liebig and Norton Horsford Eben. Marquart produced the baking soda as the first industrially as part of his company.

Works

• Textbook of practischen and theoretical Pharmacie, with special consideration for prospective pharmacists and doctors. 2nd edition / Edit. Ernst Hallier and Hermann Ludwig. Mainz: Kunze ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf ) 1 1865
• 2 1865
• 3 1866