List of Famous people with last name Heffter

August Wilhelm Heffter

First Name August

Last Name Heffter

Born on April 30, 1796

Died on January 5, 1880 (aged 83)

Born in Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Jessen

Know him/her

Don't know him/her

Arthur Heffter

First Name Arthur

Last Name Heffter

Born on June 15, 1859

Died on February 8, 1925 (aged 65)

Born in Germany, Saxony

Arthur Carl Wilhelm Heffter was a German pharmacologist and chemist. He was the first chairman of the German Society of Pharmacologists, and was largely responsible for the first Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. He isolated mescaline from the peyote cactus in 1897, the first such isolation of a naturally occurring psychedelic substance in pure form. In addition, he conducted experiments on its effects by comparing the effects of peyote and mescaline on himself.

Know him/her

Don't know him/her

    index: 1x 0.021696805953979s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.01577091217041s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.015730857849121s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.0083880424499512s
t_/blocks/person-card: 2x 0.0067102909088135s
router_page: 1x 0.0052928924560547s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0052120685577393s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.0046188831329346s
headline: 2x 0.0022940635681152s
qids: 2x 0.0010709762573242s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00028514862060547s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00023603439331055s
head-facts: 1x 0.00021004676818848s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 1.7166137695312E-5s
related: 1x 4.0531158447266E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 0s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-10-04 06:08:10)  -----