Felix Hoppe-Seyler

Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe- Seyler ( born December 26, 1825 Freyburg an der Unstrut; † August 10, 1895 in Wasserburg (Bodensee) ) was a German physician, chemist and physiologist.

Life

Felix Hoppe grew up as an orphan with his brother Georg Seyler. He was adopted in 1864 by Seyler and took out of gratitude to the name Hoppe -Seyler. He studied medicine at the universities of Halle, Leipzig, Berlin, Prague and Vienna and received his doctorate in 1850 in Berlin. Thereafter, he practiced as a physician and was from 1852 to 1854 physician at the workhouse, but dealt more with physiological- chemical and medical research. In 1854 he became prosector in Greifswald, where he also completed his habilitation. In 1856 he became assistant to Rudolf Virchow at the Pathological Institute of the University of Berlin, where he became associate professor in 1860. Hoppe- Seyler was from 1861 Professor of Applied Chemistry in Tübingen and in 1872 Professor of Physiological Chemistry of Strasbourg, where he remained until his death from a stroke at his home in Wasserburg am Bodensee.

He is considered the founder of Biochemistry ( Physiological Chemistry) and molecular biology. Hoppe- Seyler discovered the blood pigment, to which he gave the name of hemoglobin. 1869 discovered his pupil Friedrich Miescher the deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA) Hoppe- Seyler in Tübingen laboratory.

Hoppe -Seyler founded in 1877 the journal of Physiological Chemistry (also known as Hoppe- Seyler 's Zeitschrift für physiological chemistry), which now appears under the title of Biological Chemistry.

He had many students in Germany and also from abroad, many of whom were professors, including Hans Thierfelder.

The German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine awards Hoppe -Seyler in honor of the Felix Hoppe- Seyler - price special for scientific achievements and contributions in the field of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine.

Works

  • Handbook of physiological and pathological chemistry analyzers (1858 ) 8th edition, Berlin: Hirschwald, 1909 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf.
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