Ludwig Andreas Buchner
Born(1813-07-23)23 July 1813
Died23 October 1897(1897-10-23) (aged 84)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Giessen University of Paris

Ludwig Andreas Buchner (23 July 1813, Munich – 23 October 1897, Munich) was a German pharmacologist. His father was pharmacologist Johann Andreas Buchner (1783-1852).

Academic background

After attending classes in Munich, he continued his education at the Universities of Giessen and Paris. In 1839, he obtained his PhD, followed by his doctorate of medicine in 1842. In 1847, he became an associate professor of physiological and pathological chemistry at Munich, followed by a full professorship of pharmacy and toxicology in 1852.

In 1849, he became a member of the Imperial Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich.

Contributions

From 1852 to 1876, he was editor of the Repertorium für die Pharmacie, a journal founded by his father. In 1872, he published Commentar zur Pharmacopoea Germanica (two volumes with Germanicized text). Also, he is credited with contributing a number of articles to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.

Works

References

  • Julius Pagel (1903), "Buchner, Ludwig Andreas", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 47, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 329
  • Günter Kallinich (1955), "Buchner, Ludwig Andreas", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 2, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 706–706
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