Otto Saly Binswanger

Otto S. Binswanger (from Julian Hawthorne's Story of Oregon , vol. 2, 1892)

Otto Saly Binswanger (born April 20, 1854 in Osterberg , Swabia (Bavaria) , † September 25, 1917 in Portland , Oregon ) was a German-American chemist and toxicologist .

Life

In 1872/73 and 1874/76 he attended as a listener (not as a student) the chemical college of the Polytechnic School in Munich , between which he did his military service (1873/74). On October 30, 1876, he enrolled at the University of Erlangen , where he completed his dissertation in chemistry (Dr. phil.) On November 12, 1877 with Eugen von Gorup-Besánez . Binswanger went to the United States of America , where, after studying for three years at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, he also obtained a doctorate in medicine and, after May 1882, worked successfully as a general practitioner in Portland .

In December 1883 he received a chair for chemistry and toxicology at the Medical Department ("School of Medicine") of Willamette University in Salem , changed with numerous other teachers in 1886 in the same capacity at the Medical Department of the University of Oregon in Portland, where he up to remained after his death.

Works

A contribution to the knowledge of cresol and some derivatives . Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate from the highly commendable philosophical faculty of the University of Erlangen , submitted by Saly Binswanger from Augsburg. Erlangen 1877

literature

Julian Hawthorne: The Story of Oregon. A History with Portraits and Biographies . New York 1892, vol. 2, p. 377 f. (English; full text in Google Book Search - USA )

Web links

Sara Piasecki: First Gem from the Rough: Binsie (discontinued March 17, 2008). On: Historical Notes from OHSU

Individual evidence

↑ The Journal of the American Medical Association , vol. 69, number 15 (October 13, 1917), p. 1286 (English; full text in Google Book Search - USA )
↑ The number of employees at the kb Polytechnic School in Munich in the summer semester of 1872 , p. 25; ... winter semester 1872/73 , p. 35; ... summer semester 1873 , p. 32; ... winter semester 1874/75 , p. 12; ... summer semester 1875 , p. 11; ... winter semester 1875/76 , p. 13
^ Register for the matriculation of the University of Erlangen 1843–1893. Würzburg 2010, p. 69
^ Roswitha Poll (among others): Directory of the Erlangen doctorates 1743-1885 . Part 1 (Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Philosophy). Erlangen 2009 ( Erlanger research / special series ; 14.1), page 136 ( Entrance to the full text in OPUS ; PDF)
↑ successor to such departments of both universities since 1974 has been the independent " Oregon Health and Science University " (OHSU) in Portland.

personal data
SURNAME	Binswanger, Otto Saly
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Binswanger, Saly; Binswanger, Salomon; Binswanger, Otto S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American chemist and toxicologist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 20, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH	Osterberg
DATE OF DEATH	September 25, 1917
Place of death	Portland , Oregon

[1] The Journal of the American Medical Association , vol. 69, number 15 (October 13, 1917), p. 1286 (English; full text in Google Book Search - USA )

[2] The number of employees at the kb Polytechnic School in Munich in the summer semester of 1872 , p. 25; ... winter semester 1872/73 , p. 35; ... summer semester 1873 , p. 32; ... winter semester 1874/75 , p. 12; ... summer semester 1875 , p. 11; ... winter semester 1875/76 , p. 13

[3] Register for the matriculation of the University of Erlangen 1843–1893. Würzburg 2010, p. 69

[4] Roswitha Poll (among others): Directory of the Erlangen doctorates 1743-1885 . Part 1 (Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Philosophy). Erlangen 2009 ( Erlanger research / special series ; 14.1), page 136 ( Entrance to the full text in OPUS ; PDF)

[5] successor to such departments of both universities since 1974 has been the independent " Oregon Health and Science University " (OHSU) in Portland.