Although aspirin has made great contributions to human health, the bitter history of one of its inventors is little known.
According to documents, it is said that the inventor of aspirin was German felix hoffman, but in this invention, there was also a Jewish chemist Artur Eichengreen, who played a very important role.
Artur eichengreen's bitter story happened between 1934 and 1949. 1934, Felix Hoffman claimed to have invented aspirin. At that time, Germany was in the dark period of Nazi rule, and the persecution of Jews intensified. In this case, the arrogant Nazi rulers were even more reluctant to admit that the inventor of aspirin was a Jew, so they mistakenly put the inventor's crown on Felix Hoffman's head and gilded their "German national superiority theory". Nazi rulers shut Artur eichengreen up and put him in a concentration camp. After World War II, around 1949, Artur Eichengreen raised this question again, but he died soon. Since then, this matter has sunk into the sea.
Walter Snead, a British medical historian, went through many twists and turns, obtained the permission of Bayer Company, consulted all the files of Bayer Company's laboratory, and finally restored the historical features of this invention with conclusive facts. He pointed out: Artur eichengreen played an important role in the invention of aspirin. In fact, in 1897, felix hoffman did synthesize the main substance of aspirin for the first time, but he succeeded under the guidance of his boss and famous chemist Artur Eichengreen, and completely adopted the technical route proposed by eichengreen.