1846 entry into the medical school in Halle; 1847 transfer to Leipzig, where he worked in the laboratory of the physiological chemist K. G. Lehmann; 1850 medical studies completed in Berlin, M.D. received in 1851; one year of further clinical training in Prague, then medical practitioner in Berlin; 1854 prosector in anatomy at Greifswald with C. A. S. Schultze; similar post in the new pathological institute organized in Berlin by Virchow, who made Hoppe-Seyler head of the chemical laboratory; 1860 associate professor at the medical faculty in Berlin; 1861 professor of applied chemistry in succession to J. E. Schloßberger at the Faculty of Medicine in Tübingen; 1872 professor of physiological chemistry at the Physiological-Chemical Institute, University of Strassburg; 1877 foundation of the Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie.
Degrees
M.D., 1851
VL Library
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Constitution des Blutes, (1) Ueber die Oxydation im lebenden Blute, in: Med. chem. Unters. 1(1866): 133-140; Ueber die Processe der Gährungen und ihre Beziehung zum Leben des Organismus, in: Pflügers A. 12(1876): 1-17; Physiologische Chemie. Berlin 1877; Ueber Gärungsprocesse, in: Z. physiol. Chem. 2(1878): 1-18; Uber die Entwicklung der physiologischen Chemie und ihre Bedeutung für die Medizin, Straßburg 1884.