René Kueny (1883-1922), un professeur strasbourgeois d’origine mosellane, à la carrière partagée entre l’Allemagne et la France (1911-1918-1922)

Abstract

René Kueny, a professor of Strasbourg university native of Moselle department. An universitary career separated between Germany and France (1911-1918-1922) – During the annexation of Alsace and Moselle to german Reich, from 1871 to 1918, the pharmaceutical teaching was delivered in a pharmaceutical institute with only one professor and three assistant professors. Coming from Dieuze, a town formerly in the department of Meurthe and now in the department of Moselle of the Reichsland, René Kueny obtained his diploma and supported his thesis at the pharmaceutical institute settled in Strasbourg and becamed rapidly its main assistant professor. After the 1st World War, in junction with french authorities, he teached chemistry to medical and pharmaceutical students and took part in the setting up of plans about the new university of Strasbourg. In july 1919, he was designated as the temporary professor of analytical chemistry and toxicology of the new school of pharmacy of the town. He was definitively selected on november 27, 1919. But unfortunately, Kueny was attacked by a serious disease as soon as august 1921 and he died in april 1922. This paper is devoted to the description of his life and to an attempt to understand and to explain the reasons of the choice of this expert in vegetable chemistry for the teaching of analytical chemistry and toxicology to pharmacy students.