Bernt Linzen

Bernt O. Linzen (born June 8, 1931 in Cali , Colombia ; † August 5, 1988 ) was a German zoologist , biochemist and physiologist who was professor of zoology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

During a visit to Germany with his parents, Linzen was surprised by the Second World War and was forced to stay here during the war. He studied biology and chemistry at the University of Hamburg and the University of Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1957 under Adolf Butenandt at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Tübingen ( About Ommine and the Occurrence of Ommochromes in the Animal Kingdom ). He followed Butenandt in relocating the institute to Munich. He completed his habilitation in 1969 in Munich ( The Tryptophan-Ommochrome pathway in insects ) and in 1975 became Professor of General Biology at the Zoological Institute of the Ludwig Maximilians University. There he gave lectures on metabolic physiology and biochemistry.

Under Butenandt, he dealt with ommochromes (eye pigments) in insects and their metabolism. From 1960 to 1962 he was at Gerald Wyatt's laboratory at Yale University and studied nucleic acid metabolism and the control of mitosis in insects. From 1968 he dealt with hemolymph in insects and hemocyanin in spiders.

In 1987/88 he was President of the German Zoological Society .

literature

• Serge Vinogradov, Oscar Kapp (ed.): Structure and Function of Invertebrate Oxygen Carriers, Springer 1991, p. XII