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Chlorodont
Gustav Ottomar Heinsius von Mayenburg (5 December 1865 – 24 July 1932) was a German pharmacist. He invented the ''Clorodont'' toothpaste for the German market. Life Mayenburg studied botany pharmaceuticals at Leipzig University. After finishing his university studies he worked as a pharmacist in Dresden. In 1907 while in Dresden, he invented a toothpaste, which he named ''Clorodont''. He filled tubes with his new toothpaste and sold it to customers. His new product competed with the ''Kalodont'' toothpaste manufactured by Carl Sarg and also the ''Pebco'' toothpaste manufactured by Beiersdorf Beiersdorf AG is a German multinational company that manufactures personal-care products and pressure-sensitive adhesives headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. Its brands include Elastoplast, Eucerin (makers of Aquaphor), Labello, La Prairi .... He was very successful and founded the ''Leowerke'' company to sell ''Clorodont''. In the 1920s over 1,000 people worked for the ''Leowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Von Mayenburg
Ruth von Mayenburg (1 July 1907 – 26 June 1993) was an Austrian journalist, writer and translator. In her earlier years, she was politically active in the Communist Party of Austria (''Kommunistische Partei Österreichs'', or KPÖ). Fleeing the Nazis, she lived in exile in the Soviet Union at Moscow's Hotel Lux, afterwards writing several books about her experiences there. Early years Ruth von Mayenburg was born in Srbice, in Bohemia, in the Sudetenland (now Czech Republic). She was the younger daughter of Max Heinsius von Mayenburg (1857-1940), mine director and his wife, Baroness Lucie von Thümen (1874-1965). She grew up in a cosmopolitan, Austrian aristocratic family in the Bohemian city of Teplitz-Schönau."Köstliche Entdeckung" '' |