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Friedrich A. (Friedrich August) Flückiger
1828–1894
A pioneering Swiss pharmacist, chemist, and botanist, he helped turn the study of medicinal plants and drugs into a more rigorous science. His work is especially remembered for linking practical pharmacy with careful botanical and chemical research.
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Pharmacographia A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in Great Britain and British India
by Friedrich A. (Friedrich August) Flückiger, Daniel Hanbury
About the author
Born in Langenthal, Switzerland, in 1828, Friedrich August Flückiger built a career at the crossroads of pharmacy, chemistry, and botany. He studied chemistry in Berlin, continued botanical study in Geneva, and became known as a scholar who brought precision and wide learning to the study of medicinal substances.
Flückiger is best known for major works on pharmacognosy and the history of drugs, including Pharmacographia, written with Daniel Hanbury. His writing helped document the plant-based medicines used in Britain and India and gave pharmacists and scientists a stronger reference point for identifying and understanding natural drugs.
He later served as a professor in Strasbourg and remained an important figure in nineteenth-century pharmaceutical science until his death in Bern in 1894. Today he is remembered as one of the key scholars who helped shape modern scientific pharmacy.