Egon Elod
Egon Elöd (born April 7, 1891 in Budapest , † November 13, 1960 in Wiesbaden ) was an engineer and chemist. He was a professor of textile and tanning chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and later director of the State Institute for Textile Chemistry in Badenweiler .
Career
Elöd was born the son of bank director Karl Elöd and Karoline Szipko-Kohout. After attending a humanistic grammar school, which he completed with the Abitur in 1909, he studied at the Technical University in Karlsruhe with Carl Engler and Adolf Koenig . It was there that he received his doctorate in 1914 . He did military service between August 1, 1914 and October 1, 1918. After the end of the First World War, he returned to Karlsruhe, where he worked as a technical and scientific worker in the following years. In 1923 he was appointed private lecturer and in 1924 head of department of the chemical-technological institute of the TH Karlsruhe. After his habilitation in 1924, he was appointed associate professor to the chair for textile and gerbereichemie in 1925. In 1926 he was appointed professor. One of his doctoral students is Helmut Zahn , who became known for his first synthesis of insulin .
After the end of World War II Elöd was the rank of top government council director of the National Institute for Textile Chemistry in Badenweiler and president of the Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists. He was buried in the Badenweiler-Lipburg cemetery.
Honors
- 1952: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Egon Elöd Prize
The Association of German Textile Finishing Specialists e. V. awards the Egon Elöd Prize, endowed with DM 1000, for scientific work in the field of textile chemistry and other relevant areas of work.
literature
- JC Poggendorff: Biographical-literary concise dictionary of the exact natural sciences. , Edition 6 - Berlin: Chemie, 1936–1939
Web links
- Literature by and about Egon Elöd in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Egon Elöd Prize of the VDTF , accessed October 22, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Elöd, Egon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer and chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 7, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1960 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |