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Oswald Schmiedeberg

1838 - 1921

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Johann Ernst Oswald Schmiedeberg (10 October 1838 – 12 July 1921) was a Baltic German pharmacologist. In 1866 he earned his medical doctorate from the Imperial University of Dorpat with a thesis concerning the measurement of chloroform in blood, before becoming the first professor of pharmacology at the University of Strasbourg, where he remained for 46 years. In 1911, he testified in the United States v. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola trial, and later, was a major factor in the success of the German pharmaceutical industry prior to the Second World War, having trained most of the European professors at the time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oswald Schmiedeberg is the 528th most popular chemist (down from 498th in 2019), the 157th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 141st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Latvian Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Oswald Schmiedeberg ranks 528 out of 602. Before him are James Smithson, Charles Blagden, Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch, Michael Behe, Darleane C. Hoffman, and Eugen Baumann. After him are Robert Jarvik, Marc Delafontaine, Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, Nikolai Menshutkin, Ida Freund, and Friedrich Accum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1838, Oswald Schmiedeberg ranks 95. Before him are Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi, Alexander Veselovsky, Duleep Singh, Cleveland Abbe, Gustav Neumann, and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu. After him are Marc Delafontaine, Stefanos Skouloudis, Margaret E. Knight, Walter Buller, General Tom Thumb, and Henry Hobson Richardson. Among people deceased in 1921, Oswald Schmiedeberg ranks 116. Before him are Julius von Hann, Rafael Reyes, Mary Watson Whitney, Jean Aicard, Leo Königsberger, and Léon Moreaux. After him are Ludwig Thoma, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Nino Martoglio, Rudolf Stöger-Steiner von Steinstätten, Emily Davies, and Mustafa Subhi.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Oswald Schmiedeberg ranks 157 out of 323. Before him are Jānis Endzelīns (1873), Kārlis Skalbe (1879), Hermanis Matisons (1894), Fridrikh Ermler (1898), Andris Nelsons (1978), and Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov (1948). After him are Vija Celmins (1938), Regīna Ezera (1930), Rutanya Alda (1942), Imants Ziedonis (1933), Ursula Donath (1931), and Alfrēds Kalniņš (1879).

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Among CHEMISTS In Latvia

Among chemists born in Latvia, Oswald Schmiedeberg ranks 4. Before him are Wilhelm Ostwald (1853), Paul Walden (1863), and Lina Stern (1878).

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