Eugen Baumann
Eugen Albert Georg Baumann (born December 12, 1846 in Cannstatt , † November 3, 1896 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German pharmacist, chemist and biochemist .
Life
Eugen Baumann attended the Stuttgart Polytechnic (with a focus on chemistry) and after an apprenticeship in his father's pharmacy, he became a pharmaceutical assistant in Lübeck and Gothenburg . He then studied pharmacy in Tübingen, where he passed the pharmacy exam in 1870 and was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate . He followed his teacher and doctoral supervisor Felix Hoppe-Seyler to Strasbourg, where he completed his habilitation in 1876 as a private lecturer. In 1877 he became an honorary doctor of medicine and in Berlin head of the chemical department of the physiological institute under Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond . In 1882 he became an associate professor of medicine there. From 1883 he held the chair for medicinal chemistry at the University of Freiburg as a full professor. In 1884 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . 1890–91 he was dean of the medical faculty.
In 1895 he took over the management of Hoppe-Seyler's journal for physiological chemistry with Albrecht Kossel .
He investigated biologically interesting sulfur-containing compounds such as cystine and thioketones . He discovered the conjugated sulfuric acids in the urine and found the sleeping pill sulfonal (diethylsulfondimethylmethane). Together with his students Volkov he discovered in the urine of a Alkaptonurikers the homogentisic and brought them to the metabolism of tyrosine in combination. The use of benzoyl chloride to characterize amino and hydroxyl groups goes back to him . The Schotten-Baumann reaction is well known . He died while investigating the organically bound iodine of the thyroid gland .
He was married to Theresa Kopp, the daughter of the chemist Emil Kopp , with whom he had five children.
literature
- J. Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Klemm : Baumann, Eugen. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 651 ( digitized version ).
- Maria Fischer: Actors and Agents. Bibliographic lexicon of pharmacologists between Germany and Russia in the 19th century. Shaker, Aachen 2014 (= Relationes. Volume 14), p. 9 f. ( Online version ).
- M. Spaude: Eugen Albert Baumann (1846-1896): life and work. Zurich 1973.
Web links
- History of the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Freiburg , accessed on June 9, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Winfried R. Pötsch, Annelore Fischer and Wolfgang Müller with the collaboration of Heinz Cassenbaum: Lexicon of important chemists , VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-323-00185-0 , p. 31.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baumann, Eugene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baumann, Eugen Albert Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cannstatt |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 3, 1896 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |