Max Schottelius

Max Schottelius (1849–1919) was a German pathologist and microbiologist who was part of the team that first medically described pheochromocytoma in 1886. Schottelius provided the first histological description of the catecholamine secreting tumor found in the adrenal glands when he and pathologist Rudoff Maier performed an autopsy of a woman who had recently died from severe hypertension and a heart attack likely due to an overabundance of catecholamines from the tumor. Maier had performed the autopsy of the woman and found two tumors (one in each adrenal gland). Schotellius described the histological appearance of both tumors and noted that they turned brown in color when exposed to chromate containing Mueller's solution.

In 1904 he nominated Robert Koch for a Nobel Prize in Medicine, which was later awarded to Koch in 1905.

Schottelius' hobbies included driving his car and sailing. He was one of the first owners of a private car in Freiburg. He disappeared when sailing on Lake Constance on October 12, 1919, and was presumed lost at sea, his body was never found.

Schottelius is a descendant of German grammarian Justus Georg Schottelius.