Angelo Mariani (chemist)
French chemist (1838–1914)
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Angelo Mariani, born Ange-François Mariani (17 December 1838 – 1 April 1914) was a French pharmacy technician (assists the pharmacist in dispensing, preparation and administration), and entrepreneur from the island of Corsica. He was born in Pero-Casevecchie, Haute-Corse. A pharmacist is known as a chemist in Commonwealth English.
17 December 1838
Angelo Mariani | |
|---|---|
Ange-François Mariani | |
 Mariani, by Nadar, in 1900 | |
| Born | Ange-François Mariani 17 December 1838 Pero-Casevecchie, Haute-Corse, France |
| Died | 1 April 1914 (aged 75) |
| Known for | Inventor of the first coca wine |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pharmacy |
Early life
Career
He is best known as the inventor of the first coca wine, Vin Mariani, in 1863, made from Bordeaux wine and coca leaves.[2] His contribution was to introduce the coca leaf indirectly to the general public. Mariani imported tons of coca leaves and used an extract from them in many products. It was Mariani's coca wine, though, that made him rich and famous. Mariani was also awarded with a medal of appreciation from Pope Leo XIII.[3]
This tonic wine, Vin Mariani, has been described as an inspiration for John S. Pemberton's 1885 coca wine drink, Pemberton's French Wine Coca and the ancestor of Coca-Cola.[4][5]
"Marketed as a 'brain-tonic', French Wine Coca was re-launched in 1886 as Coca-Cola"[6][7]
Works
- Mariani, Angelo (1896). Coca and its Therapeutic Application (3 ed.). New York: J. N. Jaros – via gutenberg.org.
Release date: February 21, 2015 [eBook #48328] Most recently updated: October 24, 2024
HTML[8] - Mariani, Angelo (1896). Coca and its Therapeutic Application (3 ed.). New York: J. N. Jaros – via archive.org.
Release date: February 21, 2015 (eBook #48328) Most recently updated: October 24, 2024
PDF[8] - Mariani, Angelo (1892). Coca and Its Therapeutic Application (2 ed.). New York: J. N. Jaros – via Google Books. pdf
Further reading
- Lestrange, Aymon de (18 December 2018). Coca Wine: Angelo Mariani's Miraculous Elixir and the Birth of Modern Advertising. Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-62055-784-6. OCLC 1029444492.
Original published in French under the title:Angelo Mariani, 1838-1914 : le vin de coca et la naissance de la publicité moderne by Éditions Intervalles.
[9][10][11][12] - Arbouche, Nadia, Aymon de Lestrange, Jean-Sébastien Raul, and Pascal Kintz. Mariani wine: What's really in it? Analysis of the most popular tonic drink of the 19th century after 100 years of storage. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis 238 (2024): 115804.
- Tillier, Bertrand (15 July 2020). "Angelo Mariani et l'artification du vin de coca (1860-1914)". Crescentis (3). doi:10.58335/crescentis.1111.
- Emery, Elizabeth. Viral marketing: Mariani wine testimonials in early French and American newspaper advertising. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 39, no. 2 (2017): 117–129.
- Mariani & Company (1878). La coca du Pérou et le vin Mariani: botanique, historique, thérapeutique (in French). Mariani & Company – via Google Books.
- Mortimer, William Golden (1901). Peru. History of coca, 'the divine plant' of the Incas; with an introductory account of the Incas, and of the Andean Indians of to-day. New York: J. H. Vail & Company – via archive.org.
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