Johann Andreas Buchner (6April 17835June 1852) was a

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working in the area of

alkaloid Alkaloids are a broad class of natural product, naturally occurring organic compounds that contain at least one nitrogen atom. Some synthetic compounds of similar structure may also be termed alkaloids. Alkaloids are produced by a large varie ...

s. He was the father of pharmacologist Ludwig Andreas Buchner (1813–1897). He was born in

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and studied at Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff's pharmaceutical institute in

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, obtaining his PhD in 1807. In 1809, he became ''Oberapotheker'' of the ''Zentral-Stiftungs-Apotheke'' for hospitals in Munich. In 1818, he was appointed an associate professor of

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, medical formula instruction and

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at the University of Landshut, where he later became a full professor of pharmacy (1822). When the university relocated to

, he moved back to his home town, where he lived and worked until his death. He is credited with isolating

salicin Salicin is an alcoholic β-glucoside. Salicin is produced in (and named after) willow (''Salix'') bark. It is a biosynthetic precursor to salicylaldehyde. Salicin hydrolyses into Glucose, β-d-glucose and salicyl alcohol (saligenin). Salicyl al ...

from

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bark (1828) and the discovery of

berberine Berberine is a Quaternary ammonium cation, quaternary ammonium salt from the protoberberine group of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids, occurring naturally as a secondary metabolite in some plants including species of ''Berberis'', from which its name ...

(from the root bark of ''

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'').
New remedies: the method of preparing and administering them; their effects ... by Robley Dunglison

Works

*''Vollständiger Inbegriff der Pharmacie in ihren Grundlehren und praktischen Theilen : ein Handbuch für Aerzte und Apotheker'' . Bände: 2 / Bd.1 T.3 / Bd.2 T.4 / Bd.3 T.4 / 7 . Schrag, Nürnberg 1822 - 182
Digital edition
by the

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Buchner, Johann Andreas German pharmacologists 1783 births 1852 deaths Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Scientists from Munich 19th-century German chemists 19th-century German scientists 18th-century German scientists