Oswald Schmiedeberg - the 'father' of experimental pharmacology

Oswald Schmiedeberg (1838-1921) was a son of a bailiff and a maid of honour, the eldest of the six children in the family. He was born and educated in the Russian Empire. Scientific activity. All his life he was completely devoted to science, making experimental pharmacology an independent scientific discipline, and was able to bring it to the international level. O. Schmiedeberg studied the action of muscarine and nicotine, digitoxin, hypnotics and analeptics. He was the first to introduce the concept of - pharmacodynamics‖ and - pharmacokinetics‖ of a drug. With his participation, the world‘s first pharmacological journal was founded, which is still published today