Carl Wehmer (chemist)

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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Wehmer (born September 20, 1858 in Freiburg / Elbe ; † January 11, 1935 in Hanover ) was a German chemist and mycologist .

Life

Wehmer was the son of a lawyer and studied chemistry at the Georg-August University from 1877 . In the same year he was reciprocated in the Corps Teutonia Göttingen . He wrote his doctoral thesis as a chemist with Bernhard Tollens and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In 1887, after passing his teaching degree, Wehmer first became a trainee teacher in the Prussian school service. Then he was a scientific assistant, first at the Botanical Institute of the University of Marburg, then under the botanist Wilhelm Pfeffer at the University of Leipzig. In 1892 Wehmer was appointed as a private lecturer for technical mycology and microscopy at the Technical University of Hanover and there in 1898 he was titular professor. In Hanover in 1893 he discovered citric acid fermentation in mushrooms and subsequently developed its economic use. From 1910 Wehmer was head of the bacteriological, chemical and microscopic laboratory at the university in Hanover. In 1919 he became a full honorary professor at the TH Hannover and in 1924 he was given a teaching position for botany at the TH Hannover. In 1932 he was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • Contributions to the knowledge of native mushrooms. 3 volumes. 1893-1915;
    • Volume 1: Two new molds that cause citric acid fermentation. Hahn, Hanover a. a. 1893;
    • Volume 2: Investigations into the rottenness of fruits. Fischer, Jena 1895;
    • Volume 3: Experimental dry rot studies. Fischer, Jena 1915.
  • On the bacteriology and chemistry of the herring liquor (= treatises of the German Sea Fisheries Association. Vol. 3, No. 1, ZDB -ID 989368-4 ). O. Salle, Berlin 1898.
  • The plant substances. Botanically and systematically processed. Chemical components and composition of the individual plant species. Raw materials and products. Phanerogams. Fischer, Jena 1911, ( digitized ), (2nd, revised and increased edition. 2 volumes. Ibid. 1929–1931; supplementary volume to the 2nd edition: supplements from the years 1930–1934. Ibid. 1935).
  • as editor: Mycologisches Centralblatt. Journal of General and Applied Mycology. = Mycological review. = Revue mycologique. = Rivista micologica. Vol. 1, 1912 - Vol. 5, 1914/1915, ZDB -ID 535574-6 .
  • Epidemic ulcerative stomatitis. 1922 (Erlangen, University, medical dissertation, September 12, 1922, unprinted).

See also

literature

  • Gerhard Wagenitz : Göttingen biologists 1737–1945. A biographical-bibliographical list (= Göttinger Universitätsschriften, Vol. 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-525-35876-8 , p. 192.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 48/162.
  2. ^ Member entry of Carl Wehmer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 9, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Wehmer, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wehmer, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist and mycologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg / Elbe
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1935
Place of death Hanover