Carl Oppenheimer

Carl Nathan Oppenheimer (born February 21, 1874 in Berlin ; died December 24, 1941 in Zeist , the Netherlands ) was a German biochemist .

Life

Carl Oppenheimer, a brother of Franz Oppenheimer and Paula Dehmel , studied chemistry and medicine in Berlin and Freiburg and received his doctorate in 1894 for Dr. phil. and in 1897 Dr. med. After working as an assistant in Erlangen , he joined the Animal Physiological Institute at the Agricultural University in Berlin in 1902 , where he was appointed honorary professor of biochemistry in 1908 (non-civil servant) .

In 1915 Oppenheimer became head of the department of national nutrition issues of the newly founded Central Purchasing Society (ZEG) in Berlin, and in 1917 head of the scientific department of GA Krause & Co. AG. After his release in 1936, he emigrated to the Netherlands in 1938 .

He was a member of the German Chemical Society and the Berlin Physiological Society . In 1932 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

He was married to Hedwig Luise Troplowitz since 1904. One of the couple's sons, Chanan (Hans) Oppenheimer (1905–1978), later became a professor of subtropical horticulture in Israel.

Publications

Biochemistry and pharmacology

On the proportions of growth of the body and organs. From the pathological institute in Munich (inaugural dissertation) . Munich: Oldenbourg, 1888
Outline of organic chemistry . Leipzig, Thieme
Outline of Inorganic Chemistry 15th edition 1934
- 4th ed. 1907
Grundriß der Biochemie , 6th edition 1929
The ferments and their effects . Leipzig 1900, 5th edition 1925
Toxins and antitoxins . Jena 1904
Handbook of the biochemistry of humans and animals , 8 volumes, 2nd edition 1923–1927, supplementary volume 1930, Erg.-W. 1933, 1934
Metabolic enzymes . Braunschweig 1914
Dictionary of Biochemistry 1920
Small dictionary of biochemistry and pharmacology . Association of Science Publisher, Berlin 1920 ( digitized version )
Man as a power machine . Leipzig 1921
Chemistry textbook . 1923, 2nd edition 1928
Textbook of Enzymes . Leipzig 1927
Chemical foundations of life processes . Leipzig 1933

editor

Biochemisches Zentralblatt (publisher 1902–1922), later reports on the entire physiology . Berlin: Bornträger 1903 ff
Enzymologia (acta biocatalytica) . The Hague [u. a.]: Junk 1936–1972.

literature

Oppenheimer, Carl . In: Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it . 10th edition, Herrmann Degener, Berlin 1935, p. 1165.
Wolfram Fischer : Exodus of Sciences from Berlin. Questions - Results - Desiderata. Developments before and after 1933 (= research reports from the Academy of Sciences in Berlin . Research report 7). Walter de Gruyter, 1994, ISBN 3-11-013945-6 , p. 333 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Bernd Wöbke: Oppenheimer, Carl Nathan. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 573 f. ( Digitized version ).
Oppenheimer, Carl , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 288
Oppenheimer, Carl , in: Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Volume 4. Chernivtsi, 1930, p. 579

Remarks

↑ On the ZEG cf. Harald Wixforth: The founding and financing of war societies during the First World War . In: Economy in the Age of Extremes. Contributions to the corporate history of Germany and Austria (in memory of Gerald D. Feldman) . Munich: CH Beck 2010, pp. 81-105, here p. 91 ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Oppenheimer, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Oppenheimer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 21, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	December 24, 1941
Place of death	Zeist

[1] On the ZEG cf. Harald Wixforth: The founding and financing of war societies during the First World War . In: Economy in the Age of Extremes. Contributions to the corporate history of Germany and Austria (in memory of Gerald D. Feldman) . Munich: CH Beck 2010, pp. 81-105, here p. 91 ff.