Abstract
At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, when pharmacy was established as a modern scientific discipline, pharmacists played an important role in spreading the latest discoveries in the field of chemistry, being virtually the only established representatives of the field. The article focuses on a mutually enriching dialogue between the prominent personality of the time - the poet, writer and statesman, as well as the scientist - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the major representatives of the pharmacy of that time, especially J.
R. Spielmann, W.
H. Buchholz, J.
F. Göttling, and J.
W. Döbereiner.
Goethe, who has been deeply interested in chemistry all over his life, has found his teachers of chemistry and co-workers in this field among the pharmacists and, in return, has provided them with an extraordinary support for the realization of their scientific and professional interests. This cooperation is illustrated by the solution of the mysterious method of poisoning described in the ancient literature, on which the poet collaborated with J.
W. Döbereiner.
Attention is also paid to the reflection of pharmacy in Goethe's work (Hermann und Dorothea, Faust). The poet's numerous stays in Bohemia, where he spent more than three years of his life, naturally brought him into contact with a number of pharmacists of the Czech Kingdom.