Rediscovering History: The Revival of the Cluj Pharmacy Museum

Abstract

Among the oldest known public pharmacies in Transylvania established by city magistrates and operated by tenant pharmacists are those in the most important and wealthiest towns of the Transylvanian Saxons Sibiu German Hermannstadt Hungarian Nagyszeben 1494 Bra ov German Kronstadt Hungarian Brass 1512 and Bistri a German Bistritz Hungarian Beszterce 1516 Those pharmacy foundations are based on models from the German-speaking area The same applies to the third largest city in Transylvania although the establishment of the first municipal pharmacy in Cluj German Klausenburg Hungarian Kolozsv r is not documented but the existence of this is suggested by the fact that Wolfgang Theke a pharmacist from Buda today Budapest moved first to Bra ov then to Sibiu and later to Cluj in 1543