Louis Lewin

Who was Louis Lewin?

Louis Lewin was a German pharmacologist. In 1886, he published the first methodical analysis of the Peyote cactus, a variant of which was named Anhalonium lewinii in his honor.

He received his education at the gymnasium and the University of Berlin. The two years following his graduation he spent at Munich, in the laboratories of von Voit and Pettenkofer. Returning to Berlin in 1878, he became assistant at the pharmacological institute of the university, and in 1881 he was admitted to the medical faculty as Privatdozent. In 1897 he was finally appointed professor.

In Berlin, a street and the nearby underground train station were named in his honor.