Franz Anton Cramer (born 1776 in Paderborn; died May 9, 1829 in Paderborn) was a German court apothecary in

Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian language, Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn (district), Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pade ...

. Cramer’sche Hofapotheke is the later Adlerapotheke at the Paderborn market. His generous support enabled

Friedrich Sertürner Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner (; 19 June 1783 – 20 February 1841) was a German pharmacist and a pioneer of alkaloid chemistry. He is best known for his discovery of morphine, which he isolated from opium in 1804, and for conducting tests, ...

to discover morphine. He is the great-grandfather of the writer

Hermann Löns Hermann Löns (29 August 1866 – 26 September 1914) was a German journalist and writer. He is most famous as "The Poet of the Heath" for his novels and poems celebrating the people and landscape of the North German moors, particularly the L ...

Discovery of morphine

On 1 October 1799,

began there an apprenticeship for four years. During this time he started his scientific work, which later became the basis for the discovery of

morphine Morphine, formerly also called morphia, is an opiate that is found naturally in opium, a dark brown resin produced by drying the latex of opium poppies (''Papaver somniferum''). It is mainly used as an analgesic (pain medication). There are ...

. In 1804, for the first time Friedrich Sertürner isolated

out of the watersoluble extract of

opium Opium (also known as poppy tears, or Lachryma papaveris) is the dried latex obtained from the seed Capsule (fruit), capsules of the opium poppy ''Papaver somniferum''. Approximately 12 percent of opium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid mor ...

in the Cramer’schen Hofapotheke.

Literature

*Fritz Cramer: ''Stammliste Cramer-Paderborn.'' In: Westfälisches Familien-Archiv, Band 8/9 1926, S. 101–104
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