Felix Hoppe Seyler
Ernst Felix Immanuel HoppeSeyler , n Felix Hoppe, was a German physiologist and chemist, and the principal founder of the disciplines of biochemistry, physiological chemistry and molecular biology.
HoppeSeyler was born in Freyburg an der Unstrut in the Province of Saxony. He originally trained to be a physician in Halle and Leipzig, and received his medical doctorate from Berlin in 1851. Afterwards, he was an assistant to Rudolf Virchow at the Pathological Institute in Berlin. HoppeSeyler preferred scientific research to medicine, and later held positions in anatomy, applied chemistry, and physiological chemistry in Greifswald, Tbingen and Strasbourg. At Strasbourg, he was head of the department of biochemistry, the only such institution in Germany at the time.
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