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felix hoppe-seyler 10 august 1895 wasserburg am bodensee , german empire freyburg an der unstrut in the province of saxony 150px german physiology chemistry halle leipzig 26 december 1825 felix hoppe-seyler . jpg felix hoppe-seyler
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felix hoppe-seyler

ernst felix immanuel hoppe-seyler -lrb- 26 december 1825 -- 10 august 1895 -rrb- , né `` felix hoppe '' , was a german physiologist and chemist , and the principal founder of the disciplines of biochemistry , physiological chemistry and molecular biology .
hoppe-seyler was born in freyburg an der unstrut in the province of saxony .
he originally trained to be a physician in halle and leipzig , and received his medical doctorate from berlin in 1851 .
afterwards , he was an assistant to rudolf virchow at the pathological institute in berlin .
hoppe-seyler preferred scientific research to medicine , and later held positions in anatomy , applied chemistry , and physiological chemistry in greifswald , tübingen and strasbourg .
at strasbourg , he was head of the department of biochemistry , the only such institution in germany at the time .
his work also led to advances in organic chemistry by his students and by immunologist paul ehrlich .
among his students and collaborators were friedrich miescher -lrb- 1844 -- 1895 -rrb- and nobel laureate albrecht kossel -lrb- 1853 -- 1927 -rrb- .
