Otto von Fürth (18 November 1867 – 7 June 1938) was an Austrian

physician A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the Medical education, study, Med ...

physiologist Physiology (; ) is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system. As a subdiscipline of biology, physiology focuses on how organisms, organ systems, individual organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out chemical and ...

and

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. Fürth studied at the University of Prague, the

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and the

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. He worked at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

, the University of Prague and the University of Straßburg where received his habilitation in medical chemistry in 1899. From that point on he worked in Vienna focusing on biochemistry. In 1898 he announced the discovery of "suprerenin." He received the

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in 1923.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Furth, Otto Von 1867 births Austrian physiologists Austrian chemists Czech Technical University in Prague alumni 1938 deaths Austrian biochemists Austrian physicians University of Vienna Physicians from Austria-Hungary