Ernst Joseph Friedmann

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Ernst Joseph Friedmann (born August 2, 1877 in Berlin ; † 1956) was a German physician and chemist.

Life and activity

After attending the Royal French Gymnasium in Berlin, Friedmann studied natural sciences and medicine at the Universities of Freiburg, Berlin, Würzburg, Leipzig and Strasbourg. He passed the preliminary medical examination in Berlin and the association examination in Prof. Siegfried's laboratory in Leipzig . Friedmann completed his training with a double doctorate: in 1902 he submitted a thesis on sulfur-containing protein derivatives (Dr. Phil) to the Physiological-Chemical Institute of the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg . His second medical doctorate, also supervised by Hofmeister, followed in 1905 ( Dr. med. ).

It was followed by two years as an assistant to tutor before settling in 1907 as Assistant Professor habilitation . He then taught medicinal chemistry from 1907 to 1930 at the Charité of the Berlin University (since 1921 in the rank of extraordinary professor of physiology).

In 1934 Friedmann was ousted from the civil service because of his - according to National Socialist definition - Jewish descent. He went to Great Britain, where he researched and taught at the William Dunn Institute at Cambridge University until his death .

After his emigration, Friedmann was classified by the National Socialist police as an enemy of the state: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin placed him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who would be succeeded by the occupying forces in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Special SS commandos were to be identified and arrested with special priority.

literature

  • Joseph S. Fruton: Contrasts in Scientific Style: Research Groups in the Chemical and Biochemical Sciences , 1990, p. 407.

Fonts

  • Contributions to the knowledge of the physiological relationships of the sulfur-containing protein derivatives , 1902. (philosophical [!] Dissertation)
  • On the constitution of mercapturic acids , Strasbourg 1905. (medical dissertation)
  • Sterols and Related Compounds: A Series of Three Lectures Delivered at the Institute of Biochemistry, Cambridge , 1937.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Friedmann on the special wanted list GB Reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London.
personal data
SURNAME Friedmann, Ernst Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1956