Ernst Leopold Salkowski

Ernst Leopold Salkowski (October 11, 1844 – March 8, 1923) was a German biochemist who was a native of Königsberg.

He received his education at the University of Königsberg, later working in Berlin as an assistant in the chemical laboratory of Rudolf Virchow's institute of pathology (1872).

In 1874 he became an associate professor of medicinal chemistry in Berlin, followed by an assignment as departmental head (1880).

[6] He was the author of Practicum der physiologischen und pathologischen Chemie, later translated into English as "A Laboratory Manual of Physiological and Pathological Chemistry".

With internist Wilhelm von Leube (1842-1922), he published Die Lehre vom Harn (The doctrine of urine).