Julius Geppert

August Julius Geppert ( born November 7, 1856 in Berlin, † March 12, 1937 in Gießen ) was a German pharmacologist and physician.

Life

Geppert began in 1875 to study medicine in Heidelberg, which he continued in Berlin from 1877 to 1879. On October 13, 1880, he received his doctorate there with the dissertation The gases of the arterial blood in a fever. From 1880 he was an assistant at the 2nd Medical Clinic in Berlin. In 1886 he moved to the Pharmacological Institute of the University of Bonn, where he qualified in the same year. On March 16, 1893 Geppert was appointed associate professor. In 1899 he followed a call to the chair of pharmacology at the University of Giessen, where he remained until 1928. 1933, the teaching license was revoked as a so-called " half-Jews ".

Work

Geppert dealt extensively with the physiology of respiration and the pharmacology of the fumes and gases, particularly in the context of anesthesia. In Berlin, he worked closely with the physiologist Nathan Zuntz and constructed the Zuntz - Geppert 's respiratory system. Also an anesthetic machine, which enabled the measurement of blood gases and the dosage of chloroform, goes back to him.

Writings (selection )

• Zuntz N. and J. Geppert: Concerning the nature of the normal Athemreize and the site of action. In: Pflügers Arch 38, 1886, pp. 337ff
• J. Geppert: A new method of anesthesia, Thieme, Leipzig 1899