Ernst Berliner (microbiologist)
Ernst Berliner (born September 15, 1880 in Berlin ; † October 28, 1957 in Auerbach ) was a German microbiologist and biochemist.
Life
The son of Albrecht Berliner and Hedwig geb. Köppen , attended the Humboldt Gymnasium, which he left with the Abitur in 1901. From 1900 to 1904 he studied mechanical engineering at the Königlich Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg and then until 1908 natural sciences at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin with Oscar Hertwig , Rudolf Virchow (?), Ludwig Plate , Warburg, Fritz Schaudinn , Max Hartmann , Franz Eilhard Schulze and Wilhelm von Branca . He then worked scientifically at the University's Zoological Institute and at the Robert Koch Institute. On May 8, 1909, he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. with a paper on flagellate studies .
From 1909 to 1912 he was Johannes Buchwald's assistant and later head of department at the Research Institute for Grain Processing in Berlin . Here he examined an infectious disease of flour moth caterpillars . In the summer of 1909 a consignment of flour moth caterpillars had come in from a Thuringian mill, in which the disease had occurred, which then spread epidemically in the institute. In 1911 he reported on it for the first time in the Zeitschrift für Getreidewesen and in 1915 the detailed publication " About the sleep addiction of the meal moth caterpillar (Ephestia kühniella Zell.) And its pathogen Bacillus thuringiensis " appeared in the Zeitschrift für angewandte Entomologie.
From 1912 to 1914 he was department head of the agricultural chemical control station of the Halle Chamber of Agriculture. As a volunteer in World War I, he was a lieutenant and company commander in France and Russia and was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class.
From 1920 he was head chemist at the Swedish milling company Malmö Stora Walskvarn and from 1927 head of the research institute for grain chemistry at MIAG in Frankfurt .
In 1921 he married Helene Martha Ast († 1954), with whom he had the children Kurt Albrecht (1921–1944) and Hildur Hedwig (* 1928).
In 1931 he continued to independently run the Research Institute for Grain Chemistry in Darmstadt-Eberstadt. From 1927 to 1933 he was a private lecturer in grain chemistry at the TH Darmstadt.
Between 1933 and 1945 he was racially and politically persecuted, was given work restrictions and a ban on publication and was temporarily detained by the Secret State Police together with his wife in 1944. From 1936 to 1938 he was still able to lead scientific training courses in Vienna, Prague, Zurich and Paris.
From 1949 to 1957 he had a working group with Kurt Neitzert (* 1911) at the Research Institute for Grain Chemistry in Darmstadt-Eberstadt. In 1950 he initiated the annual Jugenheim discussion meeting of the Grain Chemistry Working Group. In 1955 he was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon.
literature
- Aloysius Krieg, AM Huger: Symposium in memoriam Dr. Ernst Berliner, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the first description of Bacillus thuringiensis. Darmstadt, August 25, 1986 . Messages from the Federal Biological Research Center for Agriculture and Forestry, Issue 233; ISBN 3-489-23300-X
Individual evidence
- ↑ Symposium in memoriam Dr. Ernst Berliner on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the first description of Bacillus turingiensis. , 1986. ( Memento from February 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner , 1961 ( Memento from February 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berliner, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German microbiologist and biochemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1957 |
| Place of death | Auerbach |