August Julius Geppert (November 7, 1856 – March 12, 1937) was a German

pharmacologist Pharmacology is a branch of medicine, biology and pharmaceutical sciences concerned with drug or medication action, where a drug may be defined as any artificial, natural, or endogenous (from within the body) molecule which exerts a biochemic ...

born in

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. He studied medicine at the Universities of

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and

, earning his doctorate in 1880 with a thesis titled (The

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gases during

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). From 1880 to 1885 he worked as an assistant at the second medical clinic in Berlin, becoming a lecturer at the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

during the following year. From 1893 he was an associate professor of pharmacology, attaining the title of "full professor" in 1899 at the

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. Geppert is remembered for research involving the physiology of respiration,

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and

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. With physiologist

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(1847-1920), he developed the (Zuntz-Geppert respiratory apparatus).
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Written works

* (On the effects of rarefied air on the organism), with Albert Fraenkel (1848–1916), Albert Fraenkel, Berlin 1883. * (Gas analysis and its physiological application), Ib. 1885. * (On the regulation of respiration), with

, 1888. * (On the nature of

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poisoning, 1889 * (The doctrine of

antiseptics An antiseptic (from Greek ἀντί ''anti'', "against" and σηπτικός ''sēptikos'', "putrefactive") is an antimicrobial substance or compound that is applied to living tissue/skin to reduce the possibility of infection, sepsis, or putre ...

), 1889 * (On disinfecting means and methods. 1890 * (On the methodology of gas analysis), 1898. * (A new anesthesia method), 1899.

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References

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(biography and written works) {{DEFAULTSORT:Geppert, Julius German pharmacologists Scientists from Berlin Academic staff of the University of Giessen 1937 deaths 1856 births