Ernst Pepper
Ernst Pfeffer (* 31 January 1939 in Leipzig , † 10. January 2017 in Bonn ) was a German agronomist animal nutrition and emeritus professors .
Life
Ernst Pfeffer, son of Karl Heinz Pfeffer , attended primary school in Hesse and the humanistic high school in Hamburg-Groß Flottbek until he graduated from high school . After an agricultural apprenticeship in Schleswig-Holstein with a degree in agricultural assistant, he studied agricultural sciences in Weihenstephan and Göttingen . He finished his studies as a qualified farmer and received a doctoral scholarship at the University of Göttingen. In 1964 he received his doctorate as Dr. sc. agr. with the topic of long-term studies on dairy cows on the influence of a low-sodium diet on the plasma volume and on the chloride metabolism . He then worked as a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation in the Department of Agricultural Biochemistry at Newcastle University in Great Britain and completed his habilitation in 1968 with the subject of studies on mineral movements in the digestive tract of adult mutton and received the license to teach ( venia legendi ) for animal physiology and animal nutrition. The habilitation was followed by a university professorship and professorship for performance physiology in Göttingen, where he worked from 1970 to 1978. In 1978 he was appointed full professor and head of the Institute for Animal Nutrition at the University of Bonn to succeed Richard Müller . As a university professor and researcher, he worked at this institute for over a quarter of a century.
On January 31, 2004, in the run-up to his 65th birthday, a scientific colloquium on the subject of metabolism and supply of nitrogen and phosphorus took place in his honor in Bonn .
Appreciation
The focus of Ernst Pfeffer's life's work is nitrogen and phosphorus metabolism and the supply of farm animals with these two groups of substances. He and his co-workers succeeded in developing a wealth of new knowledge, which found its way into agricultural practice and improved its productivity. The honor colloquium demonstrated the numerous works of the jubilee in these specialist areas, the current state of knowledge and their great national and international recognition. In 2015, the German Society for Zuchtungskunde recognized Ernst Pfeffer's scientific achievements in the field of animal nutrition with the award of the Hermann von Nathusius Medal .
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice of Prof. Ernst Pfeffer in the Bonner Generalanzeiger
- ↑ Emeritus Ernst Pfeffer on the website of the University of Bonn
- ↑ Acknowledgment of Ernst Pfeffer by Manfred Anke Jena 2004 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. pdf accessed October 14, 2015
- ↑ Appreciation from Ernst Pfeffer on the DGfZ Bonn website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pepper, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German agronomist in animal nutrition and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 10, 2017 |
| Place of death | Bonn |