CHRONOLOGY 



1827. Born at Naumburg, Electorate of Hesse-Cassel, Ger- 

 many, June 13. 



1832-30. Attended public and private schools in Naumburg. 



1836-42. At the Latin School in Fritzlar. 



1842-46. Apprenticed to his cousin Louis Elith, apothecary in 

 Gudensberg, Hesse-Cassel, 28 March 1842 to March 

 1846. 



1846. Passed examination as assistant in pharmacy, before 

 theKurf: Hess: Ober-Medizinal-Kollegium zu Kassel, 

 February 24. 



1846-47. Assistant to Julius Post, University Apothecary, Got- 

 tingen, April 1846 to April 1847. 



1847-48. Assistant to Paul Diickeissen (Engel-Apotheke) , Mainz, 



Grand Duchy of Hesse, April 1847 to October 1848. 

 1848. Received as a member of the Pius-Verein filr religiose 

 Freiheit zu Mainz, April 5. 



1848-50. Assistant to Th. Jacobi, apothecary, Fulda, Hesse- 

 Cassel, 1 October 1848 to 31 March 1850. 



1850. Entered the University of Gb'ttingen at Easter, 27 

 April 1850, matriculating in the philosophical faculty 

 as a student of pharmacy Joh. Karl Ludw. Gieseler, 

 Prorectar. 



1851. Appointed assistant in analytical chemistry, under 

 Professor Staedeler, October 18. 



1852. Passed examination as apothecary in Hessen-Kassel 

 (Kurhessen), before the Kurf: Hess: Ober-Medizinal- 

 Kollegium, March 23. 



1852. Appointed second assistant in the Chemical Labora- 

 tory, Gttttingen, June 8. 



1852. Presented a dissertation, Ueber die Bestandtheile der 

 Canthariden, and on December 27 received the degree 

 of Doctor of Philosophy. 



1853. Inaugural-Dissertation printed, a synopsis of which, 

 entitled Ueber die Natur des Fettes der Canthariden, 

 appeared the same year in Wohler, Liebig und Kopp's 

 Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. 



