Eduard Buchner

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Eduard Buchner
University of Breslau
University of Würzburg
Doctoral advisorTheodor Curtius

Eduard Buchner (German pronunciation:

fermentation.[1]

Biography

Early years

Buchner was born in Munich to a physician and Doctor Extraordinary of Forensic Medicine. His older brother was the bacteriologist Hans Ernst August Buchner.[2] In 1884, he began studies of chemistry with Adolf von Baeyer and of botany with Carl Nägeli, at the Botanic Institute in Munich. After a period working with Otto Fischer (cousin of Emil Fischer[3]) at the University of Erlangen, Buchner was awarded a doctorate from the University of Munich in 1888 under Theodor Curtius.[1]

Academics

Buchner was appointed assistant lecturer in the organic laboratory of Adolf von Baeyer in 1889 at the University of Munich. In 1891, he was promoted to lecturer at the same university.[1]

In the autumn of 1893, Buchner moved to

University of Kiel and appointed professor in 1895. In the next year he was appointed Professor Extraordinary for Analytical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the chemical laboratory of H. von Pechmann at the University of Tübingen.[1]

In October, 1898, he was appointed to the Chair of General Chemistry in the Agricultural University of Berlin, fully training his assistants by himself, and received his rehabilitation in 1900.[1][4]

In 1909, he was transferred to the

University of Breslau (reorganised to be University of Wrocław in 1945[5]), and in 1911, he moved to University of Würzburg.[1]

The Nobel Prize

Buchner received the

Maria Manasseina claimed to have discovered free-cell fermentation a generation earlier than Buchner,[6] but Buchner and Rapp considered that she was subjectively convinced of the existence of an enzyme of fermentation, and that her experimental evidence was unconvincing.[7]

Personal life

Buchner married Lotte Stahl in 1900. At the outbreak of the First World War, he volunteered in the Imperial German Army and rose to the rank of Major, commanding a munition-transport unit on the Western and then Eastern Front. In March 1916, he returned the University of Würzburg. In April 1917, he volunteered again. On 11 August 1917, while stationed at Focșani, Romania, he was hit by a shell fragment in the left thigh and died in a field hospital two days later.[8] He died in the Battle of Mărășești and is buried in the cemetery of German soldiers in Focșani.[8]

Though it is believed by some that the Büchner flask and the Büchner funnel are named for him, they are actually named for the industrial chemist Ernst Büchner.[9]

Publications

  • Eduard Buchner (1897). "Alkoholische Gährung ohne Hefezellen (Vorläufige Mitteilung)". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. 30: 117–124.
    doi:10.1002/cber.18970300121
    .
  • Eduard Buchner, Rudolf Rapp (1899). "Alkoholische Gährung ohne Hefezellen". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. 32 (2): 2086–2094.
    doi:10.1002/cber.189903202123
    .
  • Robert Kohler (1971). "The background to Eduard Buchner's discovery of cell-free fermentation". Journal of the History of Biology. 4 (1): 35–61.
    S2CID 46573308
    .
  • Robert Kohler (1972). "The reception of Eduard Buchner's discovery of cell-free fermentation". Journal of the History of Biology. 5 (2): 327–353.
    S2CID 34944527
    .

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Eduard Buchner – Biographical". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  2. ISBN 978-0-385-17771-9
    .
  3. ^ "Emil Fischer - Biographical". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  4. ^ "Eduard Buchner - Universitäts-Archiv". www.uni-wuerzburg.de. Archived from the original on 2 November 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-27.
  5. ^ "History of the University of Wrocław". Uniwersytet Wrocławski (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2021-06-10. Retrieved 2020-10-22.
  6. ^ Cornish-Bowden, Athel (1999). "The Origins of Enzymology". The Biochemist. 19 (2): 36–38. Archived from the original on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
  7. ^ Buchner E, Rapp, R (1898). "Alkoholische Gährung ohne Hefezellen". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. 30: 209–217.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^
    doi:10.14279/depositonce-992.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  9. doi:10.1021/ed083p1283. Archived from the original
    on 2009-08-29.

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