Oskar Zoth

Oskar (Karl Maria) Zoth ( born August 28, 1864, Austrian Padua, † November 30, 1933 in Graz ) was a physiologist.

The eldest son of k.k. Regimental surgeon Franz Xaver Zoth went to high school in Sibiu (1872 /73) and Graz (1875 /76), studied medicine at the University of Graz and was awarded his doctorate on 22 March 1888 doctor of medicine. The physiologist Alexander Rollett had made him 1885 and October 1888 provisional assistant to the assistant at the Physiological Institute. In 1892 he habilitated with over transparent solidified blood serum and egg white.

In 1898 he was appointed as associate professor in Graz and in 1902 a full professor and head of the physiological institute of the University of Innsbruck. In 1904 he went as a successor of Rollett to Graz. In 1909 he was elected to the Leopoldina. In 1926 he resigned because of illness by the Magisterium.

His research interests were similar to Rollett the physiology of the blood and blood circulation, muscle and physiological optics. His technical talent led to a series of improvements and new designs of apparatus. In 1894 he experimented and the later Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Fritz Pregl with steroids and presented in a self-experiment determine their performance-enhancing effect.