Liebreich, Oscar, 1839-1908

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Personal name heading	Liebreich, Oscar, 1839-1908 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Liebreich, Matthias Eugen Oscar, 1839-1908
Found in	Therapeutische Monatshefte, Jahrgang I (Januar 1887): title page (edited by Oscar Liebreich) Wikipedia website, viewed August 5, 2014: Oscar Liebreich page (Matthias Eugen Oscar Liebreich (14 February 1839- 2 July 1908) was a German pharmacologist. He was a native of Königsberg. He studied chemistry under Carl Remigius Fresenius in Wiesbaden, and studied medicine in Königsberg, Tübingen and Berlin, achieving his degree in 1865. Beginning in 1867 he worked as an assistant in the chemistry department of the pathological institute under Rudolf Virchow. Later he became professor of therapeutics (1868) and director of the Pharmacology Institute in Berlin (1872). In 1889 he co-founded the Balneologischen Gesellschaft (Balneology Society) in Berlin, and was its chairman until his death in 1908. Liebreich edited the Therapeutische Monatshefte (1887 sqq.) and the Encyklopädie der Therapie (1895 sqq.), and with Alexander Langgard published a Kompendium der Arzneiverordnung (5th ed. 1902)