Valentin Rose (pharmacologist)

{{Short description|German pharmacologist (1762–1807)}}

Valentin Rose the Younger (30 October 1762 – 9 August 1807) was a German pharmacologist from Berlin, Margraviate of Brandenburg. Son of Valentin Rose the Elder (1736–1771).

Beginning in 1778, he spent four years as a pharmacy apprentice in Frankfurt am Main, afterwards returning to Berlin, where he worked as an assistant at his late father's pharmacy. In Berlin, he attended lectures given by Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch and Martin Klaproth at the Collegium Medico-chirurgicum. In 1785, he became provisor of his father's pharmacy, of which he gained ownership of in 1791.[http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz76940.html translated biography] at NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie

He is credited with the discoveries of sodium bicarbonate (1801) and inulin (1807, from elecampane root). He also developed a method for the detection of arsenic to be used in criminal investigations.Valentin Rose (1806) [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b618714;view=1up;seq=679 "Ueber das zweckmäßigste Verfahren, um bei Vergiftungen mit Arsenik letzern aufzufinden und darzustellen"] (On the most effective method, in cases of poisoning with arsenic, to discover and show the later), Journal für Chemie und Physik, 2 : 665-671. With Adolf Ferdinand Gehlen, he was an editor of the "Berlinisches Jahrbuch für die Pharmacie und für die damit verhundenen Wissenschaften".[http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-rose,%20valentin$apotheker/ WorldCat Identities] Berlinisches Jahrbuch für die Pharmacie, 1795-1840. Edited successively by V. Rose, A.F. Gehlen, J.W. Doebereiner, C.W.G. Kastner, G.H. Stoltze, W. Meissner, A. Lucae, and A.W. Lindes./ Bd. 1-43