Education
He studied chemistry at the University of Lausanne and in 1883 earned his pharmacy diploma in Zürich.
He studied chemistry at the University of Lausanne and in 1883 earned his pharmacy diploma in Zürich.
He was a leading expert on mosses native to Switzerland. He then worked as a pharmacist in Rheinfelden and Zürich, and in 1886 he purchased the Englische Apotheke in Davos. In 1893 he returned to Lausanne, where he later taught classes in microscopy at the pharmacy school associated with the university.
In 1901 he established his own research laboratory.