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Otto Schumm
German chemist, 1874-1958.
Associated eponyms:
Nonne-Apelt reaction
Sensitive, qualitative method for demonstrating fibrine-globuline in liquor cerebrospinalis.
Biography:
Otto Schumm studied pharmacy at the University of Marburg, and later attended the polytechnical university in Hannover, becoming Dr. rer. Nat. at Hamburg in 1920. In 1898 he became assistant of physiological chemistry at the laboratory for medical chemistry at the Eppendorfer Krankenhaus in Hamburg. He became head of this laboratory in 1905, and in 1907 commenced lecturing on clinical chemistry. In 1909 he was appointed chief of the chemical laboratory at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus Hamburg-Eppendorf, titular professor in 1919. Following the founding of the University of Hamburg he received the venia legendi with the assignment of teaching physiological and pathological chemistry, becoming ausserordentlicher professor in 1931.
Bibliography:
- Die Untersuchung des Faeces auf Blut. Jena, 1906.
- Klinische Spektroskopie. Jena, 1909.
2nd edition entitled:
- Die spektrometrische Analyse natürlicher Organischer Farbstoffe. Jena, 1927.
- Spektrographische Methoden zur Bestimmung des Haemoglobins und verwandter Farbstoffe.
In: Emil Abderhalden (1877-1950), publisher: Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden, volume 6; Berlin and Vienna, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1912
- Der Zuckergehalt im menschlichen Blute und seine Bestimmung. Hamburg, 1920.
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