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John Michael Maisch was born on January 30, 1831, in the ancient German town of Hanau, Hesse. He was the son of Conrad Maisch, a merchant.
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John Michael Maisch was born on January 30, 1831, in the ancient German town of Hanau, Hesse. He was the son of Conrad Maisch, a merchant.
Maisch attended a private school, then the bürgerschule, entered the realschule at twelve, and upon its foundation in 1844 was transferred to the oberrealschule. Here he received an excellent fundamental training in natural history, chemistry, physics, and mathematics, as well as instruction in Greek and Latin and in microscopy.
His parents wished him to study theology, but his bent was toward a scientific calling, and he selected pharmacy as the study of his preference. Before he had the opportunity to secure training in this subject, however, he took part in the Baden Rebellion of 1849 and was forced to leave Germany.
He came to America in his nineteenth year, without money, influence, or friends, but with so much native ability and industry that he soon made contacts that enabled him to gain practical experience in his chosen profession.
Maisch worked in pharmacies in Baltimore, Washington, and New York, and then for some time in the employ of Robert Shoemaker, a pioneer wholesale druggist and manufacturing pharmacist of Philadelphia, who was actively connected with the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. In May 1854, he contributed his first paper, "On the Adulteration of Drugs and Chemical Preparations, " to the American Journal of Pharmacy.
In 1859, he became associated with another well-known pharmacist, Edward Parrish, who conducted a pharmaceutical preparatory course for students of medicine, and in this year, he revised the chemical section of the second edition of Parrish's Introduction to Practical Pharmacy.
He profited so well by his contacts with these men that in 1861, he was called to the chair of botany and materia medica in the New York College of Pharmacy. Here he remained for two years, spending his spare time in the laboratory of Dr. Edward R. Squibb of Brooklyn, another pharmacist of national repute.
In 1863, he returned to Philadelphia to take charge of the United States Army Laboratory, in which medical and pharmaceutical supplies were made for the Union army. He conducted this work in such a conscientious and thorough manner as to save large sums of money for the government. When the laboratory was discontinued at the close of the Civil War, he opened a pharmacy in Philadelphia.
In 1866, he became a professor in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, with which he was connected thereafter until his death, occupying several chairs in succession, and finally becoming dean.
For many years (1865 - 93), he was permanent secretary of the American Pharmaceutical Association; he was the chemical, botanical, and pharmaceutical editor of the first three editions of the National Dispensatory (1879 - 84), was editor of the American Journal of Pharmacy from 1871 until his death, and was a member of the Committee of Revision of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States for three successive decades (1870 - 90). He also edited and revised R. E. Griffith's Universal Formulary, and published a successful work of his own, A Manual of Organic Materia Medica (1882).
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Maisch was a member in the American Philosophical Society.
In 1859, Maisch married Charlotte Justine Kuhl. The couple had five sons and two daughters.