BUCHNER, JOHANN ANDREAS (1783-1852). A German pharmacist, born in Munich. Be studied pharmacy under Trommsdorff in Erfurt, and in 1818 was appointed professor of pharmacy. toxicology, and the theory of prescription at (lie University of Landshut. This chair he retained upon the transfer of the university to Munich in 1826. In 1827 he became a member of the Bava rian Academy of Sciences. From 1815 to 1851 he published 110 volumes of his Reportarinin fur Pharmacie, then the most widely circulated periodical of the sort in Germany, and in 1815 IS edited the Anzeiger fiir Kunst and Gewerb (kiss in Bayern. He discovered salicin and her berine (qq.v.). and by his writings greatly aided in the establishment of pharmacy upon a scien tific basis. His chief publication was the un completed Inkgriff der Pharmacie (1821-36), to which other scientists contributed. and for which he himself wrote an Einleitung in die Pharmaeic (MI); Toxikologie (1822); Grundriss der Physik als Vorbereitung zur Chcinic (1823) ; and Grund•iss der r'henlie (1830-36).
BUCHON, 131.1'SlaiN'. JEAN ALEXANDRE ( 1791.
1846). A French historian, born at Menetou Salon (Cher). After extensive travels for the col lection of material, he published, in 1824-26, his edition of the Chroniques de Froissart (15 vols.), a portion of his Collection des chroniqucs na tionales francaises ecNtes en longue rulgairc du -Ville au XVle sieele (47 vols.. 1824-29). In addition to some volumes of travel, such as Le Grece continentale et la Nor& (1343), his works include Chronigues etrangeres relatives aux expeditions francaises pendant lc _Mk siecic (18-10), Esquisse des principaux faits de ItOR (Inflates nationales dv Tine au XIlle sieele (1840), and Nourelles recherches historiques sur la prineipaute francaise de Moree (1845).