University of Maryland School of Pharmacy - Terra Mariae Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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CHARLES CASPARl, JR. INSTITUTIONS, however proud or creditable, and ijrotVssioiis, however learned or honorable, may be personified in their abler re])resentatives. Fortunate, indeed, is the representative who has become conspicuous enough to fitly do such service ; equally fortunate is the institu- tion or profession that can claim one who, in his personality, represents the best for which either stands. The dedication of this volume to the Dean of the School of Pharmacy seeks to, at once, kindly recoi iiize the new department of the University, pay graceful tribute to I ' harmacy, and feelingly homir its chief expimt-iit in Maryland, if not in- this country. Caspari is a name long and creditably associated with jiharmacy in Germany, and the elder American representative, Charles Caspari, who immigrated to lialtimore in IS 11, quickly became the leader of the German pharmaceutical element in this cit , where i- .dmund Ducatel and his pupils had ably represented the French school. This combination of I ' Vench and German teach- ings gave Baltimore a number of representatives who, early, became peculiarly conspicuous in the pharmaceutical world. The subject of this sketch. Charles Caspari. Jr., was l)nni in Baltimore, May, 1850. His primary education was secured in ])rivate schools and liis academic studies were inirsued in the Department of . rts and Sciences of this same old University nf Maryland, during the years ISd l to ISG ), when that scln n il was tniiU-r the directinn f llie kite |)r. I ' .. A. Dalrymple. The untimely fleath of his father effectually thwarted his well formed intentiims and earnest desire to secure a degree from the L ' niversity of (lOettingen, from which the elder Cas])ari had gradu- ated. This same unfortunate deprivation compelkd him in remain in the drug business which he had entered in 1SC5. He graduated from the .Maryland College of I ' harmacy in ISCO. and engaged in business on his own account in 1871; successfully conducted the pharmacy at the corner nf Ikdlinmre and JMemnnt stri ' cts inuil Isi ' l, wluii he gave uj) business that he might devote more time to teaching, having been elected to the h ' aculty of the Maryland College of I ' harmacy in l.S7!i. where he sihiu afterwards instituted one of the first jjliarmaceutical labora- tories, for teaching jjurposes. that this country nwns. I ' re ifessur Caspari was elected Vice-Presi- dent of the .American I ' harniaciiuical Association in ISlt.i, and has lieen a most acceptable and effi- cient General Secretary of that .Assoeiatinn since IS!t|. as is evidenced by the following, ex- tracted from a recent issue of a prduiinent pharniaceutical juin ' ual; It is ;dl hut im])ossible to think of the . merican riiannaceutical .Association with- out thinking also of Professor Caspari, the general secretary. The two arc almost in- separable. The 1 ' rofessor became secretary in ISHl at the Asheville meeting, and any pharmacist who has ever attended a convention since, is familiar with his short but wiry figure, his quick movements, his incisive and positive manner, his virile strength in de- bate, and his ready method of despatching and ex])editing luisiuess. Secretary Ca.spari is a bundle of energy, and although he likes a .good story and is fond of social inter- course, he has no time to waste with the dawdlers an l the stragglers who never get any- where.

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The work for the American Pharmaceutical Association inckides the active editing and pub- lication of its annual proceedings, averaging over 1,000 octavo pages per volume. Besides doing this stupendous literary work, he has, in the same time, since 1893, been one of the editors of the National Dispensatory and has written A Treatise on Pharmacy, a popular text-book, the third edition of which is in preparation. He is one of the most active of the working members of the committee authorized to revise the U. S. Pharmacopceia, and. (hiring the last four years, has given much of- his time to this very important and exacting work. He has an interesting family of four girls and two boys. The elder son. Charles Ivlward, graduated from the Johns Hopkins L ' niversity and was admitted to tlie degree of Doctor of Phil- osophy. b - that institution in 1!»00, for p ost-graihiate chemical work done in its laboratory. He is now Professor of Chemistry in the St. Louis College of Pharmacv. The Dean, as he is familiarly called by his associates and students, wins popularity, not through diplomacy and finesse, but by straightforward, kindly positiveness and tlirough the respect that his broad attainments command.