Oswald Schmiedeberg
Johann Ernst Oswald Schmiedeberg | |
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University of Dorpat |
Johann Ernst Oswald Schmiedeberg (10 October 1838 – 12 July 1921) was a
In 1911, he testified in the
Early life and family
Oswald Schmiedeberg was born in Courland, one of the Baltic provinces of Russia.[1][2] His father Wilhelm Ludwig (1809–1878) was a bailiff in Leidzen and later forester in Paggar (Estonia). His mother Anna Lucie Bernard (1813–1871) was the daughter of a watchmaker from Lausanne. Oswald was the eldest of six siblings of whom a brother Johann Julius Rudolf became a forester. After education at the primary school at Permisküla, and the gymnasium in Dorpat he entered the medical school at the University of Dorpat.[3]
Career
In 1866 he earned his medical doctorate from the
In 1872 he became the first professor of pharmacology at the University of Strasbourg, where he remained for the next 46 years.[4][5][6]
His work largely dealt with chemicals poisonous to the heart, causing
In 1911,[7] he testified in the United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola trial.[8][9]
Schmiedeberg was a major factor in the success of the German
Death and legacy
Having been in declining health for the remainder of his life, Schmiedeberg died at the age of 82 of natural causes in Baden-Baden.[2]
Selected publications
- Ueber die quantitative bestimmung des Chloroforms im Blute und sein Verhalten gegen dasselbe. 1866 – On the quantitative determination of chloroform in the blood, etc.
- Das Muscarin. Das giftige Alkaloid des Fliegenpilzes (Agaricus muscarius L.) seine Darstellung, chemischen Eigenschaften, physiologischen Wirkungen, toxicologische Bedeutung und sein Verhältniss zur Pilzvergiftung im allgemeine, 1869 – fly agaricmushroom, its representation, chemical properties, physiological effects, etc.
- Grundriss der Arzneimittellehre, 1883 – Fundamentals of pharmacology.
- "The dietetic and therapeutic uses of ferratin"; published in English (1893).
- "Ferratin : the ferruginous element of food"; published in English (1894).
- Grundriss der Pharmakologie in Bezug auf Arzneimittellehre und Toxikologie, 1902 Digital 5th edition from 1906 by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Arzneimittel und genussmittel, Salzwasser (1912). Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Über die Pharmaka in der Ilias und Odyssee. Karl J. Trubner, Strasburg (1918). Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
References
- ^ PMID 8564242.
- ^ PMID 4869651.
- ^ Bäumer, Beatrix (2007). "Schmiedeberg, Oswald". Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 23. pp. 227–228.
- ^ ISBN 978-981-4355-08-7.
- PMID 351320.(subscription required)
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- ^ Agriculture, United States Department of (1912). Notice of Judgement, Food and Drug Act. pp. 56–57.
- ISBN 978-0-465-04699-7.
- ^ The United States, Appellant, Vs. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs, Coca-Cola, Appellee: From the District Court of the United States, Southern Division, Eastern District of Tennessee. Record, Part 1-4. James B. Cox ... W.B. Miller ... for Appellant; J.B. Sizer ... Harold Hirsch ... for Appellee. Macgowan-Cooke. 1912.
- ^ "A brief history of pharmacology". Modern Drug Discovery, American Chemical Society. 2001. Retrieved 2 April 2007.
Further reading
- Meyer, Hans H. (1922). "Oswald Schmiedeberg". Die Naturwissenschaften. 10 (5): 105–107. S2CID 35518685.
- Bäumer Beatrix (2007), "Schmiedeberg, Johann Ernst Oswald", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 23, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 227–228
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