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

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OSCAR OLDBERG OSCAR OLDBERG was bom at Alfta, Sweden, on January 22, 1846. He was the son of Andeis and Frederika Katrina Oldberg. He was a descendant of a family of clergymen, his father having been pastor in Helsingland. After leaving public school, Oldberg entered the office of Frederik Helleday, an accomplished pharmacist. Helleday had been a pupil of the celebrated BerzeUus and during his four years of apprenticeship, Oldberg had benefit of the schooling and experience of his master, as well as his kindly ofiices as private tutor. In 1865, Oldberg came to America as a mature and experienced pharmacist. Four years after his arrival he was appointed a member of the faculty of the School of Pharmacy of George- town University. Teadhing was his true vocation, and he excelled at it. His energies carried him away to other fields. He was vice-consul of Sweden and Norway at Memphis, Tennessee, in 1872. For seven years he was chief clerk and acting medical purveyor in the United States Marine Hospital Service at Washington. He held the chair of Pharmacy and was Dean of the Faculty of the National College of Pharmacy in Wash- ington. For several years he was Professor of Pharmacy in the Chicago College of Pharmacy. Later he became Dean of the Northwestern Uni- versity School of Pharmacy, a position he held from 1886 to 1911, when he was compelled to resign because of failing healtL Oscar Oldberg served on the Revision Committee of the U. S. P. for thirty years. He was active in the affairs of the A. Ph. A., and served as its president in 1908. He also was a member of the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft. In 1893 he was presiding secretary of the International Pharmaceutical Congress. He died in CaUfomia on February 27, 1913, at the age of sixty-seven. He was survived by his wife, two sons — one of whom was Professor of Music and Dean of the School of Music at Northwestern University — and a daughter. In his address as Chairman of the A. Ph. A. in 1907 he reported the close working agreement between doctors and pharmacists. He wanted schools of pharmacy to have uniform entrance requirements, always encour- aging a greater amount of high school work previous to entry in college. He believed this necessary to a student ' s mental development. It was his belief that the student learned more, for instance, if a subject ran for two weeks, twenty-five hours a week, than if it ran for one week, fifty hours a week. He advocated the formation of a state board of learned men, not of politicians. Oscar Oldbeig readily upheld the manufacturer as a benevolent aid to ethical pharmacy. But the pharmacist should know of the manufacturer ' s product and be able to give this information to the pubUc TTie student should learn much of this in school because the average pharmacist is unable to teach this to the student of pharmacy.

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