Short biography and publications by and about Georg Ludwig Ulex (1811-1883)
Short biography
| 1811 | born on October 8, 1811 in Neuhaus an der Oste |
| 1827-1831? | Apprenticeship with the pharmacist Johann Joachim Ohrtmann at Speersort in Hamburg |
| 1831 | Assistant exam |
| 1832-1833 | Assistant to the pharmacist Murray at the university pharmacy in Göttingen |
| 1832-1833 | Study of pharmacy in Göttingen (at the same time) |
| 1833 | Silver Medal of the Hagen-Buchholz Foundation |
| 1833-1834 | Assistant to Dempwolff at the Ratsapotheke in Hildesheim |
| 1835-1836 | Student of pharmacy at H. Rose in Berlin |
| 1836 | Pharmacy exam in Hanover |
| 1838 | Pharmacy exam in Hamburg |
| 1838-1873 | Management of the pharmacy at Stubbenhuk in Hamburg |
| 1840-1870 | Lecturer in chemistry and physics at the Pharmaceutical Teaching Institute in Hamburg |
| 1845 | Founding member of the Bildungsverein für Arbeiter (with J. F. Martens)(later: Bildungsverein of 1945) |
| 1847 | Foundation of a public chemical trading laboratory, first trading laboratory in Germany (today: Chemisches Laboratorium Dr. Hermann Ulex) |
| 1848-1853 | Chairman of the Hamburg-Altona Pharmacists' Association |
| 1848? | Member of the Central Committee of the 7 Democratic Associations |
| 1849-1861 | President of the Educational Association for Workers |
| 1856 | Swearing in as a commercial chemist in Hamburg |
| 1858-1864 | Chairman of the Hamburg-Altona Pharmacists' Association |
| 1859-1874 | Member of the Hamburg City Parliament, among others member of the Citizens' Committee of the High School Authority and of the Commission for the Museum of Arts and Crafts |
| ?-? | Board of the Technical Section of the Patriotic Society in Hamburg |
| 1871 | Doctor honoris causa of the philosophical faculty Rostock |
| ?-1883 | Honorary member of the Hamburg-Altona Pharmacists' Association |
| ?-1883 | Honorary member of the Patriotic Society in Hamburg |
| ?-1883 | Honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society in St. Petersburg |
| ?-1883 | Honorary member of the Wetterauschen Society for the entire natural history in Hanau |
| ?-1883 | Member of the Honorary Council of the Association of Analytical Chemists |
| 1883 | died on March 25, 1883 in Hamburg-Altona |
Major achievements
- Founder of commercial chemistry
- Weighty member of the democratic movement in 1848
- Discovery of struvite (named by him after Heinrich Christoph Gottfried von Struve)
- Description of the mineral boronatrocalcite, which was later named after him "Ulexite".
Affinities
- Father of Georg Friedrich Ulex (1841-1907), pharmacist in Hamburg
- Father of Herrmann Theodor Ulex (1855-1915), founder of the Chemical Laboratory Dr. Hermann Ulex
Alternative name spellings
- Georg Ludwig Ulex
- Georg L. Ulex
- Georg Ulex
- G. L. Ulex
- G. Ulex
Publications and biographies
(Still missing: Supplement to the Königsberger Intelligenzblatt 1868 and Deutsche Industrie-Zeitung 1870)
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