The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Schreiner, Oswald
SCHREINER, Oswald, American agricultural
chemist: b. Nassau, Germany, 29 May
1875. He was graduated at the Baltimore
Polytechnic Institute in 1892, the Maryland
College of Pharmacy in 1894, and later studied at
Johns Hopkins University and at the University
of Wisconsin. He was United States Pharmacopœia
Research Fellow in 1895-96, and in 1903
was appointed chemist of the United States
Bureau of Soils. From 1906 he was chief of
the Division of Soil Fertility Investigation; and
in 1914 he was appointed consulting professor
of chemistry at the American University. He
has prepared many of the bulletins of his
department and is also author of ‘The
Sesquiterpenes’ (1904); ‘Chemistry of Soil Organic
Matter’ (1910); ‘The Nitrogenous Soil
Constituents’ (1913), etc.