A professor at the University of Tübingen, Julius Eugen Schlossberger was one of the founders of physiological chemistry. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, on May 31, 1819, Schlossberger received his medical degree from Tübingen in 1840 and as a young physician, he worked at the Katherinenhospital in Stuttgart and as personal physician to the Graf Solm-Hoogstraaten. He received further training in Vienna and Paris, and perhaps most importantly with Justus Liebig in Giesen before his elevation to Professor of Chemistry at his alma mater in 1846. He remained at Tübingen until his death on July 9, 1860. Among the best known of his numerous publications was his Lehrbuch der organischen Chemie (Stuttgart, 1850, 1852).

Julius Schlossberger's Unorganischen Chemie is a thorough discourse on inorganic chemistry and metallurgy, presumably relating to lectures given at the University of Tübingen, with an extrensive section on the physical properties, chemistry, and analysis of Eisenmetalle ("iron metals"). The volume includes three small drawings of experimental apparatus.

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Gift of Bob Lee Mowery, 1979 (accn. no. 1979-2142ms).

Cite as: Julius Eugen Schlossberger, Unorganischen Chemie, American Philosophical Society.

Recatalogued by rsc, April 2003.

Justus von Liebig und Julius Eugen Schlossberger in ihren Briefen von 1844-1860 (Mannheim, 1988).