[The development of pharmaceutical analysis at German universities in the 19th and 20th century]

The aim of this paper is to trace some features of the historical development of drug analysis as an academic discipline in its relation to the emergence of pharmaceutical science. In the first half of the nineteenth century pharmacists identified and characterized minerals, plants and drugs. K.F. Mohr played a decisive part in the founding of the new discipline drug analysis. The development described here, which began in Marburg, Breslau and Königsberg and was extended to other places, led to the evolution of drug analysis. The establishing of independent departments, for instance in the former G.D.R., played a decisive role in developing the discipline drug analysis.