Alfred Gottschalk (biochemist)

Alfred Gottschalk (born April 22, 1894 in Aachen , † October 4, 1973 in Tübingen ) was a German-Australian biochemist . Together with Frank Macfarlane Burnet, he was the discoverer of neuraminidase and a leading expert in glycoprotein research.

Life

Gottschalk studied medicine in Munich, Freiburg and Bonn, interrupted his service as a field doctor during the First World War , for which he received the Iron Cross , and received his doctorate in Bonn in 1920. As a post-doctoral student he was in Würzburg and Frankfurt. Then he was at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry with Carl Neuberg and from 1926 director of the chemical department at the General Hospital in Stettin . Gottschalk married Lisbeth Orgler in 1923. The couple had a son.

In 1934, after the National Socialists came to power , he lost his job because of his Jewish roots and worked from then on as a resident doctor. He was interned in the Oranienburg concentration camp for a short time . In 1939 he emigrated to Australia via England before the National Socialists. He worked there as a biochemist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne and researched neuraminidase and glycoproteins together with Frank Macfarlane Burnet. He taught at Melbourne Technical College and then at the University of Melbourne . From 1959 he worked at the Australian National University (John Curtin School of Medical Research). He was a member of the Australian Academy of Sciences (1954) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

In 1963 Alfred Gottschalk returned to Germany, where he was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen and became an "External Scientific Member" of the Max Planck Institute.

Honors

Gottschalk was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne and the University of Münster . The Gottschalk Medal for Medical Research of the Australian Academy of Sciences is named in his honor.

Fonts

as editor: Glycoproteins. Their Composition, Structure and Function (= Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. BBA Library. 5, ISSN 0067-2734 ). Elsevier Amsterdam et al. 1966.

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SURNAME	Gottschalk, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Australian biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 22, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen
DATE OF DEATH	4th October 1973
Place of death	Tübingen