Burckhardt Helferich

Helferich with the habilitation in Leipzig

Burckhardt Helferich (born June 10, 1887 in Greifswald , † July 5, 1982 in Bonn ) was a German chemist and university professor .

Life

As the son of the surgeon Heinrich Helferich , Burckhardt Helferich studied natural sciences , including geology , at the University of Lausanne . After one semester, he served as a one-year volunteer in Schwerin . From autumn 1907 he studied chemistry at the TH Munich . After three semesters he switched to the TH Berlin . In 1911, he was as an academic student of Emil Fischer with the work synthesis of some new glucosides to Dr. phil. PhD . He then became a private and scientific assistant with him . During the First World War he fought as a battery leader in the artillery .

In the interwar period , he completed his habilitation in 1920 at the University of Leipzig . He stayed in Berlin as a private lecturer . In 1922 he became a full professor for organic chemistry at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University . From the same year he was also head of department at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fiber Chemistry .

In 1925 he went to the University of Greifswald as the successor to Rudolf Pummerer . In 1930 he accepted the call from the University of Leipzig , where he succeeded Arthur Hantzsch as director of the Institute of Chemistry until 1945.

In the post-war period , after a two-year visiting professorship at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, he became a fourth professor there. After he was rector in 1954/55 , he retired in 1955.

Between 1911 and 1974 he wrote over 300 publications . His best known student was Reinhard W. Hoffmann , who worked as a professor of organic chemistry at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Honors

• Member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences (1931)
• Emil Fischer Medal (1951)
• Great Cross of Merit (1957)
• Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Dr.-Ing. E. h. of the TH Stuttgart (today University of Stuttgart)

Burckhardt Helferich Prize

The University of Leipzig has been awarding the Burckhardt Helferich Prize since 2005.

literature

• Hermann Stetter : Burckhardt Helferich. 1887-1982. In: Chemical Reports. Vol. 118, No. 1, 1985, ISSN  1434-1948 , pp. I-XIX, doi : 10.1002 / cber.19851180102 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Burckhardt Helferich in the catalog of the German National Library
• CV (Chemie Leipzig)
• Burckhardt Helferich in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Synthesis of some new glucosides. Schade, Berlin 1911 (Berlin, Technical University, dissertation, 1911).
2. ^ Biographies, publications and academic family tree of Burckhardt Helferich at academictree.org, accessed on February 9, 2018.
3. ↑ Burckhardt Helferich Prize ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.