Author/Editor		Predin, Štefan
Title		Žiga Graf: slovenski florist, kemik in lekarnar
Type		monografija
Place		Maribor
Publisher		Mariborske lekarne
Publication year		1997
Volume		str. 203
ISBN		961-90272-2-1
Language		slo
Abstract		Dr. Siegmund Graf (1801-1838), the Slovenian florist, apothecary and chemist was born in Ljubljana where he also died. He practised the pharmacological profession in the pharmacy of his uncle F. Wagner in Ljubljana and ginished the pharmaceutical studies (mastership and doctorate)in Viena , in 1824. He was then engaged in his uncl's pharmacy as apothecary, and after the pharmacy, together with the house, had been donated to him in 1835, he ran it until his death. As a student of pharmacy he was deeply interested in botany. As Doctor of Chemistry he gained reputation with his dissertacion (I, 8) in which he studied quinquina and the process of obtaining its alkaloids. Graf made his career with the analysis of the Ribnica pottery and Dolenjske Toplice mineral water. He also served as judicial expert in criminal affairs at the Ljub jana District Court. Yet, he mainly devoted himself to botany. He cooperated with numerous botanists of his time, above all withm Koch, Reichenbach, de Candolle, Hoppe, Schlechtendal, Bentham abroad, and mostly with Hladnik and Freyer at home. He published numerous scientific papers and thus contributed to the knowledge of the Slovene flora. His paper on vegetation conditions in Carniola (II, 15) met with the widest response. Due to his scientific reputation he was admitted to the membership of the King Bothanic Association in Regensburg (1828), the Kranj Agricultural Assotiation (1828), the Society of Research in Natural Sciences in Freiburg (1829), the Medical Botanic Assotiation in London (1836), the Industrial and Crafts Assotiatiorr of inner Austria (1838), and the Physical and Medical Assotiation in Erlangen (1838) (I,12). (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters).
Descriptors		PHARMACY PHARMACISTS BOTANY BIOGRAPHY BIBLIOGRAPHY PLANTS