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Friedrich  August  Fliickiger. 
( Am.  Jour.  Pharn?. 
t    February,  1895. 
a  pharmacy  in  Solothurn,  Switzerland,  as  an  apprentice.  This  intro- 
duction into  the  practice  of  pharmacy  seems  to  have  lasted  but 
three  years,  for  during  the  two  years  of  1850  and  1851  Fliickiger 
served  as  a  drug  clerk  in  Geneva  and  in  Strassburg.  In  the  fall  of 
185 1,  he  entered  the  University  of  Heidelberg,  where  he  obtained 
the  degree  of  Ph.D.  in  1852.  He  worked  there  in  the  laboratory 
of  Professor  Delffs,  and  subsequently,  for  a  short  time,  with  Pro- 
fessor Wurtz  in  Paris.  Dr.  Fliickiger  then  spent  some  time  in 
London,  where  he  made  acquaintances  that  were,  later  on,  of  much 
value  to  him;  among  them  was  Daniel  Hanbury.  He  returned  to 
Switzerland,  and,  in  1853,  entered  into  partnership  for  the  purchase 
of  a  pharmacy  in  the  small  town  of  Burgdorf,  near  Bern.  He 
remained  there  for  seven  years,  occupying  his  abundant  spare  time 
largely  with  linguistic,  historical  and  scientific  studies,  and  also  with 
an  active  participation  in  the  elaboration  of  the  first  edition  of  the 
Swiss  Pharmacopoeia,  published  in  1865. 
Although  Dr.  Fliickiger  had  published  but  few  essays,  his  talents 
and  comprehensive  knowledge  were  soon  recognized,  and  in  1857 
the  Pharmaceutical  Association  of  Switzerland  elected  him  its  chair- 
man, which  position  he  retained,  with  great  benefit  to  the  society, 
for  nine  consecutive  years.  In  i860,  Dr.  Fliickiger  was  appointed 
director  of  the  state  pharmacy  (Canton-Apotheke)  at  Bern.  He 
gave  up  his  pharmacy  and  residence  in  Burgdorf  to  accept  the  posi- 
tion;  he  filled  it,  and  soon,  also,  that  of  co-examiner  of  pharmacists 
and  that  of  state  chemist  until  1873.  Besides,  in  1 86 r,  he  established 
himself  as  lecturer  in  pharmacy  and  pharmacognosy  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Bern,  and  in  1870  was  appointed  to  full  professorship.  His 
position  at  Bern  in  the  laboratories  of  the  Canton  Pharmacy,  as  well 
as  in  that  of  the  University,  afforded  Professor  Fliickiger  excellent 
chances  and  ample  inducements  for  application  and  research  in  the 
domain  of  practical  pharmacy.  He  made  good  use  of  these  oppor- 
tunities, and  with  the  wealth  of  his  knowledge,  the  thoroughness  in 
all  his  work,  and  with  much  zeal  and  assiduity,  accomplished  during 
the  years  of  his  stay  in  Bern  a  large  amount  of  important  practical 
and  literary  work,  including  the  revision  and  the  editing  of  the 
second  edition  of  the  Swiss  Pharmacopoeia  in  1872,  and  the  elabora- 
tion of  the  first  editions  of  his  two  greatest  works — the  "  Manual  of 
Pharmacognosy,"  published  in  1867,  and  "  Pharmacographia,"  pub- 
lished in  1874. 
