Abstract
The author deals with professionalization of chemistry at medical faculties of three Central European universities both as a subject of study and a branch of research. He compares two models of professionalization: the Austrian one (medical chemistry in Viena and Prague) and physiological chemistry (Leipzig).
The developments of medical/physiological chemistry are studied in a broader political and social contexts at three "German" faculties in the troubled 20th century (prior to 1918, interwar period, the Nazi era).