Alexander Wassiljewitsch Poehl (German Wikipedia biography)
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SUMMARY
Tertiary biographical reference for Alexander von Poehl, used for non-controversial life and enterprise facts about a long-deceased subject: birth 27 February 1850 (St. Petersburg) and death 28 August 1908 (Berlin, at a conference); the Poehl court pharmacy (acquired by his father in 1848, court pharmacy from 1871, taken over by Alexander in 1875 with a laboratory added); doctorates at Gießen (1876) and Dorpat (1882); honorary professorship at the Imperial Medical Academy (1886); medical advisory council of the Ministry of the Interior (1878-1892); elevation to hereditary nobility (1884); founding of a medical-chemistry journal (retitled Zeitschrift für medizinische Chemie und Organotherapie from 1900); credit for sealing sterile injection solutions in glass ampoules; and the family firm (pharmacy, organotherapeutic centre, and pharmaceutical factory, branches in Nizhny Novgorod and Novosibirsk) that operated until 1927, with the St. Petersburg pharmacy nationalized in 1918 and surviving as a museum. Birth and death years are independently confirmed by the Wellcome authority-controlled name (Poehl, 1850-1908) and by Wikidata Q1706566; the day-precise dates and the enterprise detail rest on this article.
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This German Wikipedia article is used as a tertiary biographical reference for Poehl’s life and his commercial enterprise, the facts relevant to the charismatic-practitioner and financial-conflict strands of the case. It is relied on only for non-controversial biographical and institutional detail about a subject who died in 1908; the load-bearing identifiers in the case (Poehl’s own works and the modern biochemical literature) are grounded against institutional catalogue records and PubMed, not against this article. Birth and death years are corroborated by the Wellcome authority record and Wikidata Q1706566.