Oskar Zoth

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Oskar (Karl Maria) Zoth (born August 28, 1864 in Padua , Austria ; † November 30, 1933 in Graz ) was a physiologist .

The eldest son of the Imperial Regiment physician Franz Xaver Zoth went to high school in Sibiu (1872-73) and Graz (1875-76), studied medicine at the University of Graz and was on March 22, 1888 as doctor of medicine doctorate . The physiologist Alexander Rollett made him a provisional assistant in 1885 and an assistant at the Physiological Institute in October 1888. In 1892 he qualified as a professor with Over transparent solidified blood serum and egg white .

In 1898 he was appointed associate professor in Graz and in 1902 professor and chairman of the physiological institute of the University of Innsbruck. In 1904 he went to Graz as Rollett's successor. In 1909 he was elected to the Leopoldina . In 1926 he resigned from teaching due to illness.

Similar to Rollett's work, his fields of work were the physiology of the blood and blood circulation, muscles and physiological optics. His technical talent led to a number of equipment improvements and new designs. In 1894, he and Fritz Pregl, who later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, experimented with steroids and found their performance-enhancing effect in self- experiments .

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supporting documents

  1. ^ Leopold Löhner: Oskar Zoth . In: Pflüger's archive for the total physiology of humans and animals . tape 234 , no. 1 , December 1934, p. 273-275 , doi : 10.1007 / BF01766908 .
  2. ^ Oskar Zoth . In: Results of Physiology and Experimental Pharmacology . tape 36 , no. 1 , December 1934, p. 1-10 , doi : 10.1007 / BF02322520 .
  3. ^ Oskar Zoth's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 6, 2016.
  4. ↑ Historical traces of doping at the University of Graz ( memento from October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Zoth, Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zoth, Oskar Karl Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physiologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1933
Place of death Graz