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Obituary . 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1898. 
lehem,  Pa.  He  was  the  son  of  Bishop  Wolle,  at  one  time  senior  Bishop  of 
the  Moravian  Church.  In  his  early  life,  Mr.  Wolle  was  engaged  in  the  hard- 
ware business  and  then  in  the  silk  trade.  In  1861  he  accepted  a  position  in 
the  United  States  Post-office  in  this  city,  which  he  retained  during  the  remain- 
der of  his  life.  His  efficiency  in  this  line  of  work  was  duly  recognized,  and 
in  1876  he  was  appointed  postmaster  of  the  Centennial  post-office.  His  work 
in  connection  with  the  Journal  as  Business  Editor  was  performed  with  devo- 
tion and  care.  He  devised  an  original  method  of  keeping  the  mailing-list  and 
a  system  of  book-keeping  which  were  especially  adapted  to  the  requirements 
of  the  Journal,  and  he  placed  the  business  department  on  a  sound  financial 
basis. 
Professor  Dr.  George  Dragendorff  died  at  his  birth-place,  Rostock,  Germany, 
on  April  7th,  as  already  announced  in  the  May  issue  of  the  American  Journal 
OF  Pharmacy.  He  was  born  on  April  20,  1836.  His  father  was  a  physician 
and  gave  him  all  the  advantages  of  an  education  that  he  was  able.  Young 
Dragendorff  attended  the  public  schools  of  Rostock  and. at  the  age  of  seventeen 
had  finished  his  studies  in  the  gymnasium.  Being  desirous  of  associating  him- 
self with  pharmacy,  he  was  apprenticed  to  the  renowned  Dr.  Witte.  After 
three  years'  experience  he  was  acknowledged  an  assistant  and  in  1858  he  passed 
the  Staatspriifung.  . 
In  order  to  become  more  broadly  and  deeply  educated,  especially  in  chemis- 
try, he  matriculated  in  about  1859  at  the  University  of  Heidleberg.  He 
remained  here  until  i860,  when  he  was  called  as  assistant  to  Professor  Dr. 
Schulze  in  the  chemical  laboratory  at  the  University  of  Rostock.  This  he 
accepted  and  in  the  following  year,  1861,  upon  the  completion  of  an  arbeit  on 
"  Ueber  die  Einwirkung  des  Phosphors  auf  einige  kohlensaure  und  borsaure 
Salze  "  he  passed  his  examination  for  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy. 
We  see  that  already  Dragendorff  had  established  his  reputation  as  a  student 
and  investigator,  and  when  we  know  the  character  of  the  man  from  his  subse- 
quent life,  we  do  not  wonder  that  he  should  be  called  in  1862  by  the  Pharma- 
ceutical Society  of  St.  Petersburg  to  beccme  editor  of  the  Pharmaceutische 
Zeitschrift  fur  Russland and  at  the  same  time  the  director  of  the  laboratories  of 
the  Society.  In  the  latter  were  performed  the  chemical  analyses  for  the  gov- 
ernment, and  here  he  laid  the  foundation  for  his  standard  work,  "  Die  gericht- 
lich-chemische  Ermittelung  von  Giften,"  which  has  passed  through  four 
editions. 
In  two  years  his  scientific  labors  attracted  so  much  attention  that  he  was 
offered  the  chair  (Ordentlich  Professor)  of  Pharmacy  and  the  Directorship  of 
the  Pharmaceutical  Institute  in  Dorpat,  Russia.  This  he  accepted  and  remained 
here  for  30  years.  He  proved  to  be  in  the  capacity  of  teacher  as  original  as  he 
was  in  everything  else.  He  was  in  his  teachings,  as  in  his  writings,  clear  and 
logical.  Students  were  drawn  to  Dorpat  to  be  taught  by  him,  from  all  over  the 
world.  He  lived  to  impart  to  his  students  what  he  knew  and  to  make  of  them 
investigators,  rather  than  storers  of  facts.  That  he  succeeded  is  attested  by  the 
fact  that  the  original  publications,  by  his  students  of  work  carried  on  under  his 
direction,  in  his  laboratory  at  Dorpat,  number  at  least  400. 
His  broad  educational  views,  his  scholarly  training,  his  natural  resources  and 
his  scientific  achievements  caused  him  to  be  elected  by  his  colleagues  of  the 
Faculty,  Prorector  of  the  University  of  Dorpat,  from  1883  to  1887.   The  sterling 
