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Pharmacists
in
German
Cultural
History

Friedrich
Wilhelm
Justus
Baedeker
(1788–1865),
who
owned
a
pharmacy
in

Witten
(Ruhr),
occupied
himself
with
ornithological
studies
in
his
leisure
time.
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coloured
tables
for
Brehm’s
natural
history
of
all
birds
in
Germany
(‘Handbuch
der

Naturgeschichtealler
Vögel
Deutschlands’)
illuminate
his
artistic
talent
(16).

Likewise,
the
pharmacist
Berend
Goos
(1815–1885)
(Figure
5)
from

Hamburg
was
devoted
to
painting.
Goos,
who
was
born
as
the
son
of
a
pastor
in

Hamburg,
spent
his
time
of
apprenticeship
with
Dr.
Georg
Eimbicke
(1771–1843),

a
student
of
the
famous
pharmacist
Johann
Bartholomäus
Trommsdorff
(1770–
1837)
from
Erfurt.
Afterwards
he
attended
the
private
institute
of
Heinrich

Wilhelm
Wackenroder
(1798–1874)
in
Jena
and
enrolled
at
the
University
of
Kiel.

He
learned
from
Christian
Heinrich
Pfaff
(1773–1852),
a
professor
who
had

previously
worked
as
a
pharmacist.
In
1839,
he
passed
the
pharmaceutical
exam
of

Schleswig-­-Holstein.
He
acquired
a
pharmacy
in
Hamburg
in
1842,
which
was

destroyed
by
a
big
fire
in
the
same
year
(17).
It
was
one
year
later
that
Goos
rebuilt

his
pharmacy
at
the
town
hall
market
square.
An
ear
disease
forced
him
to

abandon
his
profession.
From
now
on,
Goos
dedicated
himself
completely
to

painting.
In
the
history
of
art
he
was
highly
regarded
as
a
landscapist
and
in
genre

painting.
Two
pictures
–
‘The
Raftsmen’
(‘Die
Flößer’)
and
the
portrait
of
a
man
–

are
located
in
the
‘Gallery
of
Art’(‘Kunsthalle’)
in
Hamburg
(18).

Figure
5.-­-
Berend
Goos.

Without
doubt
the
most
important
painter
originating
from
the
profession

of
a
pharmacist
was
Carl
Spitzweg
(1808–1885).
Spitzweg
was
born
as
the
son
of

the
merchant
and
member
of
parliament,
Simon
Spitzweg
(1776–1828),
in
Munich.

After
Latin
School
he
started
his
apprenticeship
in
1825
in
the
‘City
Pharmacy’

(‘Stadt-­-Apotheke’)
in
Erding
and
continued
in
the
‘Court
Pharmacy’
(‘Hof-­-
Apotheke’)
in
Munich.
This
pharmacy
was
run
by
Franz
Xaver
Pettenkofer
(1783–

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