Julius Geppert

August Julius Geppert was a German pharmacologist, born in Berlin in 1856 and died in 1937. He studied medicine at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin and earned his doctorate in 1880 with a thesis on the gases of the arterial blood in fever. From 1880 to 1885 he worked as an assistant at the second medical clinic in Berlin, then became a lecturer at the University of Bonn. From 1893 he was an associate professor of pharmacology, and in 1899 he became a full professor at the University of Giessen. He is known for research on the physiology of respiration, anesthetics and hygiene, and with the physiologist Nathan Zuntz he developed the Zuntz-Geppert respiratory apparatus. His writings include works on gas analysis, the regulation of breathing, the nature of cyanide poisoning, antiseptics, disinfecting methods and a new method of anesthesia published in 1899.