Otto Saly Binswanger
Otto Saly Binswanger (April 20, 1854 in Osterberg, Bavaria - September 25, 1917 in Portland, Oregon) was a German-American chemist and toxicologist.[1]
Life
[edit]Born to the noted Binswanger family (named after the town Binswangen) and of German-Jewish descent, Otto Saly (Salomon) Binswanger was raised and schooled in Augsburg.
Apart from a one-year interruption for obligatory military service in 1873-74, Binswanger attended the Chemical/Technical Department of the newly founded Munich Polytechnic School as an auditor (not an enrolled student) between 1872 and 1876.[2] In October 1876, he enrolled at the University of Erlangen,[3] where he completed his Ph.D. dissertation on cresol and its derivatives under the direction of Eugen von Gorup Besanez in November 1877.[4]
Binswanger emigrated to the U.S., where he enrolled at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. After three years of study, he completed a medical doctorate in May 1882.
Following his medical studies, Binswanger moved to Portland, Oregon, where he was a general practitioner. In December 1883, he was appointed to a professorship in chemistry and toxicology at the Willamette University College of Medicine in Salem. In 1886, he and several colleagues relocated to the newly founded University of Oregon Medical School in Portland (now Oregon Health & Science University), where he taught until his death.
Dissertation
[edit]Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss des Kresols und einiger Derivate. Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde bei der hochlöblichen philosophischen Facultät der Universität Erlangen, eingereicht von Saly Binswanger aus Augsburg. Erlangen: Jacob, 1877. 21 pp.
Literature
[edit]Julian Hawthorne, The Story of Oregon. A History, with Portraits and Biographies. New York: American Historical Publishing Co., 1892, vol. 2, pp. 377f.
External links
[edit]Sara Piasecki, "First Gem from the Rough: Binsie". Historical Notes from OHSU (with portrait photo).
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References
[edit]- ^ Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 69, no. 15 (13 October 1917), p. 1286.
- ^ Personalstand der königlich bayrischen Polytechnischen Schule in München im Sommer-Semester 1872, p. 25; ... Winter-Semester 1872/73, p. 35; ... Sommer-Semester 1873, p. 32; ... Winter-Semester 1874/75, p. 12; ... Sommer-Semester 1875, p. 11; ... Winter-Semester 1875/76, p. 13
- ^ Register zur Matrikel der Universität Erlangen 1843-1893 (Würzburg 2010), p. 69.
- ^ Roswitha Poll et al., Verzeichnis der Erlanger Promotionen 1743-1885, Teil 1: Theologische Fakultät, Juristische Fakultät, Philosophische Fakultät, Erlanger Forschungen, Sonderreihe 14,1 (Erlangen 2009), p. 136 (accessible as pdf-file).
- American toxicologists
- German toxicologists
- 19th-century American chemists
- 20th-century American chemists
- 19th-century German chemists
- Willamette University faculty
- Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States
- Jewish American scientists
- 1854 births
- 1917 deaths
- Oregon Health & Science University faculty
- Physicians from Portland, Oregon
- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg alumni
- University of Maryland, Baltimore alumni