Alfred Schellenberger
Alfred Schellenberger (born November 14, 1928 in Chemnitz ) is a German biochemist. He was a professor at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg .
Life
Schellenberger studied chemistry in Dresden, Rostock and Halle from 1947, graduating in 1952. He received his doctorate in Halle in 1956 and qualified as a professor in Halle in 1962 (on the biochemistry of pyruvic acid ) and was there from 1964 private lecturer in organic chemistry. In 1967 he became professor of biochemistry with a teaching assignment and in 1969 full professor. From 1972 he headed the biochemistry department there. In retirement he lives in Potsdam.
Schellenberger dealt with protein research and enzymes and built a research focus on them at the University of Halle with colleagues like Gunter Fischer. In particular, he dealt with oxo acids , with thiamine pyrophosphates as a coenzyme , particularly in pyruvate decarboxylase and pyruvate dehydrogenase , and from the mid-1970s on organic polymers (especially polystyrenes ) as a means to bind enzymes.
In 1970 he became a member of the Leopoldina , whose Medal of Merit he received in 1998.
He also published books (with Martin Treu and Ralf-Torsten Speler, Leucorea (pictures on the history of the University of Wittenberg), 1999; research under suspicion: experiences from everyday scientific life in the GDR, 2008; environment 2000, the future living space of people) a narrative (Streit der Engel, Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2015) and poetry (Spiegelungen, Lyrische Experimente, Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2016).
Fonts
- with Gunter Fischer : Enzyme catalysis: Introduction to the chemistry, biochemistry and technology of enzymes, Springer 1989
- Editor: Structure-Function Relationships in Proteases and Selected Proteins, Berlin: Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften 1985 (Annual Meeting of the Biochemical Society of the GDR, Halle 1984)
- Editor: Thiamine diphosphate, Elsevier 1998
- with Martin Treu , Rolf-Torsten Speler: Leucorea: Pictures for the History of the University, Wittenberg 1999 (On behalf of the Leucorea Foundation of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
literature
- Wolfgang Müller, Article Schellenberger in: Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 380
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfred Schellenberger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Alfred Schellenberger in the German Digital Library
- Short biography on the website of his publisher for the book Streit der Engel
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Alfred Schellenberger at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 9, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schellenberger, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |