Wilhelm Friedrich Wiechowski

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Wilhelm Friedrich Wiechowski (born May 6, 1873 in Prague , † December 1, 1928 in Baden , Lower Austria) was a Bohemian pharmacologist .

Career

He studied in Prague at the German university and received his doctorate in pharmacology in 1898. Wiechowski became known through the introduction of charcoal as a medicine, explained the purine metabolism and the effect of diet and mineral water on the mineral metabolism. His son is the lecturer in theoretical electrical engineering Withold Wiechowski .

literature

  • Johann C. Poggendorff: JC Poggendorff's biographical-literary concise dictionary for mathematics, astronomy, physics with geophysics, chemistry, crystallography and related fields of knowledge ; Berlin: Chemie, 1936–1939. Vol. VI: 1923-1931
  • I. Fischer (Ed.): Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of the last fifty years ; Berlin [et al.]: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1932-1933
  • Walther Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia ; Munich [et al.]: Saur, 1995-1999