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JAMA. 1970;211(3):493-494.

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Ernst Felix Emanuel Hoppe was born in Freiburg-in-Thuringen, occupied the first chair of physiological chemistry in Germany, and directed the first institute devoted to this subject, which he distinguished but did not divorce from organic chemistry, physiology, and pathology. The hyphenated surname was acquired in maturity (1864) from the husband of his eldest sister, Doctor Seyler, who sheltered him when he was orphaned. His mother died when he was six and his father, a pastor, three years later. For a considerable time Hoppe lived under Spartan austerity at an orphan asylum, where he was introduced to chemistry by the institution's apothecary. His higher education began with matriculation in the University of Halle and continued in Leipzig; there he attended the lectures of the Weber brothers in physics, physiology, and anatomy, Erdmann's classes in organic chemistry, and Lehmann's in physiological chemistry. The doctorate in medicine was granted in 1850 by the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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