Ernst Louis Ambrecht 1818 – 1891
Ernst Louis Ambrecht 1818? – 1891? was a German pharmacist and a student of Samuel Hahnemann, who came to London in 1860 to found Nelson’s Pharmacy.
Ambrecht was the first person to set up a homeopathic pharmacy in Britain, though he was closely followed by James Epps, and he would have known all the leading homeopaths of his time, including William Edward Ayerst, Hugh Cameron, John Chapman, Matthew James Chapman, Edward Charles Chepmell, Paul Francois Curie, William Vallancy Drury, George Napoleon Epps, John Epps, James Manby Gully, Edward Hamilton, George Calvert Holland, Richard Hughes, Joseph Kidd, Thomas Robinson Leadam, Victor Massol, J Bell Metcalfe, Samuel Thomas Partridge, Frederick Hervey Foster Quin, Henry Reynolds, John Rutherford Russell, David Wilson, Stephen Yeldham and many others.
In Europe, he would have also known many of the European homeopaths, including Albrecht, Baumann, Ernst von Brunnow, Jean Barthelemy Arles Dufour, Pierre Dufresne, Anton Fischer, Carl Franz, Gaumann, Gustav Wilhelm Gross, Comte Sebastien Gaeten Salvador Maxime Des Guidi, Carl Georg Christian Hartlaub, Frantz Hartmann, Carl Haubold, Hofrath, Kretschmar, Kruger Hansen, William Leaf, Johan Joseph Wilhelm Lux, Moritz Wilhelm Mueller, Georg August Heinrich Muhlenbein, Charles Gaspard Peschier, Rohl, Mathias Roth, Ernst Ferdinand Rueckert, Rummel, John Ernst Stapf, Suffert, Timotheus Samuel Thorer, Karl Friedrich Gottfried Trinks, George Adolph Weber, Friedrich Wolf, Paul Wolf, and many others.
In 1860, Ernst Louis Ambrecht founds a pharmacy in London and begins producing homeopathic medicines; he is later joined by his son, Nelson, who changes the company name to A. Nelson & Co.
Ambrecht was a student of Samuel Hahnemann:
In 1860, his student, Ernst Louis Ambrecht, moved to England from Germany and opened a homeopathic pharmacy in Ryder Street, London. The pharmacy soon outgrew its premises and relocated to its current location at 73 Duke Street. Choosing a very English name, Ambrecht changed his name to Nelson, and the Nelsons brand was born. The Nelsons Homeopathic Pharmacy was to become the centrepiece of Nelsons’ heritage and experience for over 140 years, and, alongside its sister store in Dublin, continues to provide the same high quality medicines, advice, expertise and service.
The founder of homeopathy, Ernst Louis Ambrecht, set up A Nelson & Co nearly 150 years ago, making the family business Europe’s oldest retailer of natural medicines. Its holding company, Nelson and Russell Holdings, is now run by two of his descendants, Patrick and Robert Wilson, who have built the business into the UK’s largest manufacturer of homeopathic remedies. The company made profits before tax of £4.5m in the last financial year, on turnover of £29.9m – a profit margin of 15pc. A Nelson and Co now produces a range of alternative medicines from its laboratory in Wimbledon, which are then dispensed at its flagship London pharmacy and in chemists and health food stores. Telegraph 28.2.09
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