Maria Kuhnert-Brandstätter

Maria Kuhnert-Brandstätter (23 December 1919, Lamprechtshausen – 20 April 2011), was an Austrian pharmacist trained in pharmacognosy and known for her research on thermomicroscopy, and her microchemical investigations of natural and synthetic drug substances.

Biography Maria was born in Lamprechtshausen, north of Salzburg, Austria, on 23 December 1919. She studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and continued her studies of pharmacy and pharmacognosy in Vienna before graduating from the University of Innsbruck in 1942. Later that year, she became a student of pharmacologist Ludwig Kofler at the University of Innsbruck and received her doctorate there in 1945 in pharmacognosy, which is the use of plants or other natural sources as a source of pharmaceuticals.

When her husband, pharmacist Gerhard Kuhnert, died in May 2010, she suffered a great personal loss and died in April of the following year at 91.

Kuhnert-Brandstätter, Maria. Thermomicroscopy in the Analysis of Pharmaceuticals. Vol. 45. Pergamon, 1971. Kuhnert-Brandstätter, M., A. Kofler, and G. Kramer. "Beitrag zur mikroskopischen Charakterisierung und Identifizierung von Arzneimitteln unter Einbeziehung der UV-Spektrophotometrie." Sci Pharm 42 (1974): 150-63. Kuhnert-Brandstätter, M., and H. Grimm. "Zur Unterscheidung von lösungsmittelhaltigen pseudopolymorphen Kristallformen und polymorphen Modifikationen bei Steroidhormonen. II." Microchimica Acta 56.1 (1968): 127-139. Kuhnert‐Brandstätter, Maria. "Polymorphie bei Arzneistoffen." Pharmazie in unserer Zeit 4.5 (1975): 131-137. Kuhnert-Brandstätter, M., and E. Junger. "IR-spektroskopische Untersuchungen an polymorphen Kristallmodifikationen von Alkoholen und Phenolen." Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular Spectroscopy 23.5 (1967): 1453-1461. Kuhnert-Brandstätter, M., and A. Burger. "Untersuchungen zum Aufloesungsverhalten polymorpher, pseudopolymorpher and amorpher Phasen von Arzneimitteln." Pharm Ind 34 (1972): 187-90. Kuhnert-Brandstätter, M., and R. Völlenklee. "Thermoanalytische und IR-spektroskopische Untersuchungen an polymorphen Arzneistoffen: Acemetacin, piroxicam, propranololhydrochlorid und Urapidil." Fresenius' Zeitschrift für analytische Chemie 322.2 (1985): 164-169. Kuhnert-Brandstätter, M., and S. Wunsch. "Polymorphie und Mischkristallbildung bei Sulfonamiden und verwandten Verbindungen." Microchimica Acta 57.6 (1969): 1297-1307.