Torald Hermann Sollmann

Born in Coburg, Germany, in 1874, Torald Hermann Sollmann became a physician and pharmacologist whose career was closely tied to Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Library and journal records identify him as the author of early major texts including A Text-Book of Pharmacology (1901) and the long-running A Manual of Pharmacology and its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology, a work that continued through many editions.

Sollmann spent decades on the faculty of Western Reserve School of Medicine, where later accounts describe him as a distinguished pharmacologist active there from 1898 to 1944. His published work ranged widely across experimental pharmacology and toxicology, and historical articles note his studies during World War I on mustard gas.

His influence lasted well beyond his own publications. The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics created the Torald Sollmann Award in 1960 to commemorate what it called his pioneer work in pharmacological investigation and education. He died in 1965.