Pharmacy activity in Bosnia and Herzegovina was regulated in 1879 by an Order
of the Provincial Government, at the beginning of the Austro-Hungarian occupation. The pharmacy owner had to have a doctorate in chemistry or a master’s degree in pharmacy obtained at an Austro-Hungarian faculty. The Law on Pharmacies was adopted in 1907.
The first modern pharmacy in Banja Luka was opened by Moritz Brammer in
1879. The pharmacy was inherited by his son Robert, who had sons, Ernest, Hans
and Alfred, pharmacists. Ernest inherited father’s pharmacy, where he worked as
of 1921. Hans, also a writer and a publicist, worked in this pharmacy (1921-1930).
He emigrated to Israel in 1949. Before World War II, Alfred owned a pharmacy
and a drugstore in Zagreb. The Brammer family, a well-known one in Banja Luka,
contributed greatly to the cultural and social development of the city in the time
in which they lived.
