Albert Fitz

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Albert Fitz (born August 8, 1842 in Dürkheim , † May 11, 1885 in Strasbourg ) was a biologist.

He studied physics and botany in Heidelberg, Berlin, Strasbourg and other universities. In 1865 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. in Heidelberg. He then became a private scholar and winery owner in Strasbourg and studied microorganisms. Since 1876 he has been studying fermentation processes with glycerine in the Chemistry Laboratory of the University of Strasbourg and in 1878, based on a method by Ferdinand Julius Cohn, he cultivated a fission fungus made from hay extracts that fermented glycerine into ethanol . His results were followed up by Eduard Buchner , who then invented the Bacterium Fitz ( fitzianum ). In 1876/77 he assisted Emil Fischer in investigating the contamination of brewer's yeast.

Publications

  • About the grape seed oil . In: Annalen der Oenologie 2, 1872, pp. 275–286.
  • About double salts of the lower fatty acids .
  • About the fermentation of glycerine . In: Reports of the German Chemical Society 9, 1876, pp. 1348–1352

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/Imagenes/P0027_22/P0027_22_271.pdf
  2. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20090324225550/http://edocs.tu-berlin.de/diss/2004/ukrow_rolf.pdf ( Memento from August 8, 2012 on WebCite )
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from June 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Fitz, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Dürkheim
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1885
Place of death Strasbourg