Julius Pohl

Julius Pohl (1 November 1861 in Prague – 27 September 1942 in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel) was an Austrian-German pharmacologist.

From 1879 to 1883 he studied medicine at the German University in Prague, where afterwards he worked as an assistant to Franz Hofmeister in the pharmacology institute.

In 1892 he received his habilitation for pharmacology and pharmacognosy, and three years later became an associate professor.

[2] His work included studies on serum proteins, the action of bromoacetic acid on muscle, the toxicity of chloroform, and the metabolic oxidation of alcohols and fatty acids.

[5] With Emil Starkenstein and Eugen Rost, he was co-author of Toxikologie ("Toxicology", 1929).