One of the prominent Constantinople personalities, Faik Pasha
Della-Sudda, died on Jan. 11, 1913. He was the founder and honorary
president of the Red Crescent Society, which during many difficult years
owed its subsistence to his devoted management, and the AMERICAN RED
CROSS MAGAZINE is indebted to his courtesy for the interesting article on
the Red Crescent, published in Vol. 5, No. 3. of 1910.
Born in 1835, Faik Pasha Della-Sudda was sent when scarcely sixteen to
France, where he studied under the famous chemist, Ganot. He completed
his training at the Superior School of Pharmacy, Paris, and at the
laboratory of Wurtz & Gerhard, and on his return to Constantinople was
immediately appointed to the post of professor of chemistry at the
Imperial University of Medicine in that city. For nearly half a century
he personally conducted most of the pharmaceutics and chemistry classes
in the capital of the Ottoman Empire, with a range and depth of knowledge
that has been universally recognized and appreciated.
His important treatises on ammonium, phosphoric acid, opium and the
falsification of pharmaceutical products in Turkey, his contributions
to European and American exhibitions, made his name well-known abroad,
and in 1910 he was unanimously elected honorary president of the
newly-organized “Society of Pharmacists in Turkey,” in proof of the
grateful affection of colleagues and pupils, and of his own superior
scholarship and value. He leaves behind him the record of a long life
admirably spent.
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