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its  selection  of  men  as  teachers  in  the  sciences  related  to  pharmacy. 
The  teachers  who  have  assisted  in  developing  the  course  of  pharmacy 
at  this  university  include  men  whose  names,  are  widely  known  and 
who  are  generally  recognized  as  having  been  active  in  the  develop- 
ment of  the  several  sciences  in  which  they  were  specialists. 
The  first  teacher  in  chemistry  was  Martin  Heinrich  Klaproth 
( 1 743-181 3)  who  is  generally  recognized  as  being  second  only  to 
the  immortal  Scheele  in  practical  contributions  to  the  pharma- 
ceutical chemistry  of  his  day.  One  of  his  younger  contemporaries 
was  Sigismund  Friedr.  Hermbstatt  (i 760-1 833)  a  practical  pharma- 
cist who  taught  chemistry  and  pharmacy  and  also  contributed  many 
articles  on  pharmaceutical-chemical  subjects  to  the  literature  of 
his  time. 
One  of  the  successors  to  Klaproth  was  Eilhard  Mitscherlich 
(1794-1863)  a  student  and  associate  of  the  great  Berzelius  and 
the  discoverer  of  a  number  of  now  well-known  chemical  compounds, 
among  others,  of  permanganic  acid  and  its  salts.  Associated  with 
Mitscherlich  were  such  well-known  men  as  Heinrich  Rose  (1795- 
1864)  a  teacher  as  well  as  an  investigator,  Friedr.  Wohler  (1800- 
1882)  later  the  associate  and  successor  of  Liebig  at  Giessen,  H. 
G.  Magnus  (1802-1870)  and  Gustav  Rose  (1798-1873). 
Among  the  later  teachers  of  chemistry  were  such  well-known 
men  as  E.  R.  Schneider,  A.  W.  Hofmann,  A.dolf  Baeyer,  Adolf 
Pinner,  Emil  Fischer,  and  the  present  director  of  the  Institute, 
Dr.  Hermann  Thoms. 
The  list  of  teachers  of  physics  include  such  well-known  names 
as  Dove,  Magnus,  v.  Helmholtz,  Kundt  and  Wehnelt. 
In  botany  Heinr.  Friedr.  Link  (1765-1851)  was  followed  in 
185 1  by  Alexander  Braun  who  had  as  associates  O.  C.  Berg, 
C.  H.  E.  Koch  and  N.  Pringsheim,  all  men  who  were  able  to 
leave  their  imprint  on  the  progress  of  botany  and  pharmacognosy. 
Among  the  later  teachers  of  botany  and  pharmacognosy  we  find 
such  well-known  names  as  Karsten,  Garcke,  Eichler,  Schacht  and 
Engler. 
These  all  too  limited  references  will  serve  to  demonstrate  that 
the  century  of  pharmaceutical  instruction  at  the  University  of 
Berlin  has  been  one  of  promise  and  possibilities  despite  the  fact 
that  for  upwards  of  90  years  the  course  was  severely  handicapped 
by  hopelessly  inadequate  facilities  for  laboratory  instruction  and 
even  deficient  provision  for  lectures  and  demonstrations. 
